Paloth opened this issue on Oct 28, 2008 · 53 posts
offrench posted Wed, 29 October 2008 at 4:34 PM
When I started using Vue, a year ago or so, I felt it was the most unstable piece of software I had used since Bryce 3.0 or Amapi 6.
Things did get better with the current version, but I still have crashes. Some are reproductible and most are probably not due to a system overload or video card setting.
I just started it in order to prove myself I could still crash it at will. Created a terrain, started painting an ecosystem of plants on it. Did CTRL+Z. Vue did not crash (previous versions did) but the terrain disappeared. CTRL+Z cancelled the terrain creation, not the ecosystem painting ;-)
Vue bugs are annoying, because they generally lead to an application crash or even scene corruption. But there are also many quirks with the interface. The main one is the fact that the display constantly flickers when you edit a scene, move a camera, etc. I thought it came from my video card but saw it on a Geekatplay studio tutorial.
Bryce 6 is more stable than Vue 6 and its terrain display more detailed and does not flicker. All this affects your confidence to work with this software.
I have not done bug reporting yet as I feel I am not a beta tester and doubt it can be useful without having access to the bug list with their status. I will probably do it once I get Vue 7 if things are still that bad.
Fantasy pictures,
free 3d models, 3d tutorials
and
seamless textures on Virtual Lands.