e-on software Ships Vue d'Esprit 4 AWARD WINNING 3D NATURAL SCENERY PRODUCT NOW AVAILABLE IN USA, EUROPE June 25, 2001. Beaverton, OR. USA and Europe-based e-on software announces the immediate availability of Vue d'Esprit 4 (Vue 4), the newest version of its award winning 3D scenery animation and rendering software. "Vue 4 users will appreciate how easy it is to create beautiful, ultra natural outdoor and indoor scenery without touching the manual, and without fighting a user interface to create their artwork," said Nicholas Phelps, president of e-on software. Some of the new advanced realism features in Vue 4 include: -A new volumetric atmosphere system that closely captures the complex interactions of air and light; volumetric clouds, materials and lights -Lens flares, stellar and Atmospheric objects -A Terrain Editor with real-time 3D preview, random rock generator, symmetrical terrains -SolidGrowth 2, e-on software's amazingly realistic tree and plant creation and rendering technology, makes every plant and rock unique when dragged into a Vue 4 scene, and without adding significantly to file size -Direct import of static Curious Lab's Poser scenes and import of Caligari Truespace files - New output options include MPEG 1, MPEG 2, Quicktime, RealMovie, Quicktime VR, PICT and TIFF import/export filters. The full version of Vue 4 comes with 2 CDs, bursting with 30 SolidGrowth 2 tree and plants, over 100 atmospheres, 100 different types of clouds, 300 materials, 250 high quality fully textured 3D objects and over 50 example scenes made by Vue master artists. A 300-page manual is also included. Vue d'Esprit 4 for the Windows platform is currently available in English, with French, German and Japanese language versions available in Q3 2001. A Macintosh OS X version of Vue d'Esprit 4 is under development. Vue 4 has a street price of $199. A $169 competitive upgrade is available for Corel or MetaCreations Bryce 4 users, direct from e-on software. Additional information about Vue d'Esprit and other e-on software products is available on the e-on software website at http://www.e-onsoftware.com. About e-on software Founded in 1997, e-on software was established to develop and promote the highest quality graphics tools with professional strength features. Established by graphics enthusiasts for graphics enthusiasts, e-on software translates its passion for art into tools for the graphics community. E-on software has offices in Beaverton, Oregon USA and Paris, France. The company has achieved worldwide reputation for its award winning 3D scenery generator Vue d'Esprit. Contact e-on software USA 503-646-4857 e-on software Europe 33-1-431-42815

Vue 4 orders should ship in North America no later than Wednesday. Most Federal Express orders were shipped directly from the manufacturing plant, which is why some folks already got their orders. e-on USA's units are on their way to us in Oregon (they should be winging their way over Utah at this moment), and we expect them tommorrow morning. We are going to do our best to get out as many units as we can as soon as we have them, but we can only beat our SolidGrowth gnomes so hard before they pack up their little red caps and head back to the mushroom patch. By the way, my understanding is that there IS an easter egg in Vue 4 :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks e-on software US Business Unit

Easter egg! yum, yum...thanks for letting us know Lynn...at least I know that I will not be wasting months looking for one that did not exist like I did with Vue 3.1 LOL! Cheers

Ooh, be nice to those SolidGrowth gnomes, Lynn! We want them happy and doing the job! :D

Too right Varian...WE NEED DOUGLAS-FIR TREES ;) At the moment I am using clip maps from another application, to populate my scenes with Fir trees...and it makes me feel dirty (and like a traitor) having to use another programs features to make my Vue renders ;) Cheers

Not only douglas fir but eucalyptus, roses, willows, weeping birches, lilacs and OAK!! Gimme an O...gimme an A... grin Kate

Cool news! I'll give ya a K, Kate! :)

VERY cool Kate! I didn't know all those were in there ;) I guess they didn't want to let too much out of the bag...hehehe. Laurie

Oh Kate...BTW, can we see some??? Please???? Laurie

::still waiting for vue to get to the rock where i live::

No,no, y'all misunderstood - that was my WISH list. sigh Kate