Burpee,
impottant general note for folk who really love any art program:

unless the company is in deep crap, like oh how Metacreations dropped Bryce and Poser (grrrrr!!!!! ), when you see something like Vue7 announced and first month is a sale, GET IT CHEAP WHILE YOU CAN!! ;)

For instance, iirc, Maxwell renderer, I bought a license in Alpha testing, so it was 400 Euros or so?? Also got free extra license for the early buy. Price now is about 900 Euros....!

there was also a special bundle of Maxwell and Rhino Version4, together for $650, once! wowie. I got Rhino v2 in College so it was, hm, 175 euros? and upgraded since then, thus saving a lot of money.
(some nitwit companies won't let you upgrade from educational licenses, bah! But McNeel who make Rhino, did allow you to, which was nice)

I got an extra copy of Vue6 Infinite with a purchase of Lightwave8, but didn't have cash, after buying V7I upgrade and CS4 extended upgrade, to upgrade that extra Vue copy, to version 7, sigh.

Always a pain in the arse, you have a great idea for a scene, one's rendering away, you want to work on another scene...you know? which I was doing, until I got the 64 bit rig and now Version7.

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