Quote - Vue Infinite 7.5 will be the last version for me.  It has enough features now that I am satisfied with and I plan to use this program for a long time until I have a system that it's not compatible with.  It's a shame E-on has chosen to increase their price and reduce their quality.  I hope Luxology doesn't ever adopt that business plan.

I hear you, but I may have to upgrade just to get some "fixes" depending on how things go once version 8 comes out. A lot of people I know were gripped about Dreamweaver CS4 doing this because a LOT of the bugs were to be fixed in CS3 patches but several were left lingering. Those "fixes" were only in the NEW version which many felt was just a ploy to get you to upgrade. I know others like ZBrush have really taken a PR hit too.

In terms of Modo, I REALLY like them and Maxon a LOT more due to how they handle things overall. In fact, the OWNER of Luxology called me in person when he found out I was a technical writer and also going to do some graphic novels later on wanting to know what I thought about Modo. Now, when's the last time someone of authority at a company, much less the Owner called someone in person to inquire about their personal thoughts on what they are doing? Version 4 is a good example of adding some features, taking care of some polish and even supporting the Mac saying "64 bit is coming for version 4 and will be FREE to anyone that owns a current version 4 license". Also, they only charge for 1 license that covers both Mac and PC so it does not matter if you use it cross-platform.

C4D is also more impressive from the technical point of view in they do things right from the start. It does not get all bogged down with code that is a complete mess and is 64 bit on both Mac and PC having written it in Apple Cocoa as it should be.

Jeff

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