Quote - If TrueSpace can work with and sell a $299 V-Ray render engine (I think it's missing some stuff), why not Vue, too?

The problem is that V-Ray is a renderer and so complements e.g. Lightwave which is a modeler. Vue is NOT a modeler: it is a composer/render so V-Ray is not an addition to Vue but an alternative to Vue. The same goes with all the V-Ray "siblings" like FryRender, Maxwell Render, Brazil, Kerkythea and so on.

I have not raised the subject before, but if E-On wants to break into the architectural rendering business, it will have to fight against those engines; just google for the images created with those programs and you will understand the difficulty of the task.

Add the fact that the price tags of the above mentioned software are not really steep (in the order of 1000$) and that architects are accustomed to budgets with 6 or 7 digits in dollars (at least) for each project, and you can immediately realize that E-On won't be able to compete on the price front: it will have to best them on the speed/quality fronts (though call).

I wish all the best to E-On developers but I really wonder whether they have tackled a bit-too-large-to-gulp task....

Bye!!!

P.S.: Kerkythea is free and the 2008 version has an instancing functionality which is really similar to 6 Infinite painted ecosystems...

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2