First 7.5 Update is available. Vue 7.5 Infinite - Build 43360 for user with maintenance plan.

The following is a list of bug fixes and improvements included in this update:

• Improved align tool(backup support).
• Fixed wrong planet shadowing, especially when atmosphere thickness isn't much smaller than planet radius.
• Fixed dynamic hair on Vista.
• Improved tiles for animation.
• Improved 3DConnexion support.
• Fixed wrong bump mapping onto UV-mapped mesh objects.
• Fixed preview color reset to green when adding an existing material.
• Various Ecosystem improvements.
• Various OpenGL improvements.
• Automatic output files renaming is enabled only for external rendering modes.

Mazak

Ah good, fixed the bump mapping, think that's what was causing part of the problem with one scene I had :)
Only tired loading dynamic hair once, in past year, with the Lycanthropos, and wlel, crashed Vue, lol. But it's completely covered in hair!

Dammit I cant download the update. It tell I have not registered my version. :blink:

Mazak

E-on has solved the problem and I download now the update.

Mazak

Quote -- "*Fixed wrong bump mapping onto UV-mapped mesh objects."

Oh I hope this is true.  Bumps have been really wonked in Vue Inf 6 through 7.4.  I hope 7.5 has it right now.

ADDED:  No updates found.*

*Fixed wrong bump mapping onto UV-mapped mesh objects.

Aaargh. This is one of the bugs I submitted recently. *I even sent a scene to show the problem. So now it is corrected in 7.5, but I am still with 7.4, so I will not see it for a while. *

I had to jump ship from 7.4 because no telling when it will hit rocks.  Maybe they'll update it to 7.4999 though.  But I do know they will at least work some on 7.5 for six more months until they go into version 8 testing.

Is there an update for 7.5 xStream? If I go on the web, it says no updates avaialable. If I go into my account and click on updates, it goes to the same screen. My version of xStream 7.5 is registered.

Thanks

Quote - Is there an update for 7.5 xStream? If I go on the web, it says no updates avaialable. If I go into my account and click on updates, it goes to the same screen. My version of xStream 7.5 is registered.

Thanks

What's there is what Eon are calling an "Expedited Engineering Fixes" update.

The blurb on the update suggests that if you've got maintenance you should be seeing it, otherwise you won't. It also implies that (some of) the fixes are Beta quality as they haven't irony alert "undergone the full scope of e-on software update validation".

I appreciate the clarification.

Thanks

Ok.  I reported a bug in Vue 7.5 Infinite to E-on and they emailed me a link to the lastest Beta update to install.

What bug did you report?

Mazak

Crash on exit.  The update didn't fix the problem though.  So I reported that also.

I narrowed it down to redrawing in the video settings.  So I turned it off.  So far, no annoying bug reports to answer to every time I close the program.

I had sometime ago the same problem with 7.4 but I fixed the crash on exit with new Video drivers. And I also had some wrong video settings in my NVidea setup (maybe from a computer game) I reset to default and now the problems gone. I am very happy with the new build no crashes so far.

Mazak

My ATI driver works with all my games and all my 3D modelers.  The driver has been using the default settings since I installed it 6 months ago.  I never touch its settings, so I let the 3D programs do all the configuring.  I'm not about to mess with it just for one beta program. :)