Lyne opened this issue on Nov 29, 2006 · 24 posts
Lyne posted Wed, 29 November 2006 at 9:13 PM
Well....I was coming to post the below here, but got tied up moving around in vue 6.... I thought, while waiting and hoping for a call back I would TRY installing... and....
The software itself IS just under 600 mb...the content WITH it then adds up to about 1.3 gigs.... so I had to find out by TRYING the "small on hour download" of vue 6 - to see if it would indeed install... IT DID!! I just wish e-on would have stated that the size of the program itself was "only" this amount, so I did not think I had a broken program or bad download...especially after e-on sent me TWO download e mails TELLING ME the first one was a bad one! Sheesh!
The next step after activation is to get the latest updates for the program and the content... then burn all to a CD. e-on Oregon DID call me back and help me undertand it all... Rick was so kind...and said the program would not have "activated" if it were not a completed download! Whew!
NOW what I can't figure out is why each window is taking SOOO long to update... I turned off the open GL and made stuff "wire frame" right away... and it was going okay UNTIL I brought in a poser figure... gosh for THIS THING I think I do need a manual... I don't understand the import options (except for the frame part.. LOL!!) and it kept saying a message that it would take a lot of resources so I kept UNCHECKING the poser import thingys... I think it did not want "shaders" which is silly anyway...
But once I got my figure in (the famous Irena and monster) vue acted like it had a ton of stuff and soon I just sat back and watched it select and unselect stuff for a WHILE - because in my own mis-understanding at the non-response I just kept clicking... erg! Is this a known thing or is there some thing I can uncheck to speed things up in the 4 view? It took ages to resize and move my dense mesh red-highlighted figure!
Also I can't seem to have as much control over the sun...I am using the old BLUE vue 5 and old controls... thought the brown was better but NOT for my eyes.. I can't SEE the TINY white words.. at least I got used to the blue and it's icons etc...
I did find the eco paint thing...but I already had tried the old way... at first it thought my stuff was not registered... (bulkey confier 3) but then the others were okay in that set... but took AGES to come in... I got my buccaneer palms in okay...and Linda's Lush pasture and weeds...but the same old trouble with two plants in the old eco way...populate one and it badly affects the other... so that is why I decided to try PAINTING... well I could put a palm here and there, but no way could I paint the grass... I need an eco-painting class!!!
The renders in FINAL are remarkable! Slower but at least no odd dotty surface like the default vue 5 one... and* *I think that the render takes longer in the cloud setting...that third one over... so I force myself to be patient... and long for me is prob short for most folks...
Anyway...the lighting is a bit hard to control, the poser figure moving and I am not sure I chose the right xyz format? I want it the "old" way/direction but with dyslexia... all I could tell it was "Y is up"... in one option area...
Guess I better TRY the PDF and hope it has pictures... !
Okay.... back to it....! :)
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!