Quote - You can ignore everything CobraEye says. He never has a clue of what he's talking about. In a recent post in another thread it became obvious to everyone that he's probably still using Vue 4, as he didn't even know about a feature that was introduced in Vue 5. That tells a lot about the value of his posts.

That seems a little harsh IMO but I'll reserve comment as I don't know enough about the situation.

Quote - Vue 7 is faster than Vue 6 for comparable render quality, for most of the environments or situations. Of course, if you compare Vue 7 render time in spectral2 clouds with Vue 6 render time in spectral1 clouds, then Vue 6 is faster because spectral2 clouds are slow to render. For example, one thing where Vue7 is much, much better is in handling displacement. With Vue 7.5, all the CPU cores are used to handle procedural terrains, dynamically populating ecosystems, etc, unlike previous versions. That's a huge step up.

There were a lot of posts by chippwalters and others about render time comparison when Vue7 first came out, do a search and you'll see.

Thanks for that Rutra, I am using Vue mostly for animation so I need the clouds to render "FAST". So are you saying the clouds will render at the same speed in 7 as 6 but they will look a lot better by comparison.

I was under the impression from the Eon/Vue7 website that Vue 7 Spectral clouds rendered a LOT faster but it doesn't seem that is the case.

I have an airplane animation that I am rendering in Vue 6 Infinite but the render times for a 360 x 480 render with spectral clouds is about 20 minutes per frame with "User" render settings so I gave up on it.

I was hoping if I bought Vue 7 it might cut the render times of the same scene in half but it sounds like I might be disappointed if I am expecting something of a 50% improvement in render times in Vue 7.

Does anyone know if the Terragen 2 render times are any better? I really don't think I 'll go to Terragen unless it was significantly faster though as I have a fair amount of change into Vue with all of the plant/models etc.

It would be great if someone could do a comparison test of a spectral cloud scene (where the camera is up in the clouds) in Vue 6 and Vue 7 at 360 x 640 and post the images and the render times.

I am downloading the demo to try it out for myself but if anyone has any further advice or comments on rendering times in Vue 6 vs. Vue 7 please chime in.

Thanks :)