Forum: Vue


Subject: Is Vue 7 Pioneer too seriously hobbled to do anything meaningful?

ChrisV opened this issue on Dec 22, 2008 · 31 posts


chippwalters posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 7:48 PM

I'm not sure e-on has thought this license thing through well-enough. Certainly, one should be able to create commercial work with Pioneer upgraded all the way to Complete. I'm certain it's something they've overlooked.

That said, I imagine the real reason for the clause is to protect e-on from a use of Pioneer which they didn't foreshadow or predict. This is typical lawyer speak for this sort of free give-away. I do think giving Vue 7 Pioneer away for free is brillant and hope they continue to do the same after it is released.

Here's a picture I created totally within Pioneer. I was able to save it and open it. You can too.

The mylar balloons and people are metablobs, the rest are primitives. I used GridModeler to create the spaceframe maps and exact placement of them on a cube. I was able to take the default ground texture and add one of the new hyper-detail fractal maps to it to create the ground plane. A couple of off screen trees provided the foreground shadow, along with a quad spot set to -100 to make it darker.

I rendered it out at the highest rez, with the highest settings Pioneer had to offer. The full rez version is here