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"Bugs don't stop me from creating but the lack of a feature I need could stop me from creating an image burning in my mind to get out."

I envy you so much! The bugs in V7 and lack of decent responses and solutions from e-on are so debilitating  it is destroying  my creativity not only in vue but in other fields too and ruins many of my days.

Yes, I know, 'if it's so bad no one is forcing you to use it'.  But its abilities in principle are so great and it was so much fun using v6... I guess I'm a sucker for punishment, every new patch I think surely they must have fixed it now! Only to discover more problems.
E-on should fix existing bugs for those of us who arnt as lucky as Artur  before or at least in parallel with new features. My dollars arnt any less green than anyone else's, there's nothing in my system that doesnt comply with their description of requirement. It is morally wrong not to provide me  and many others like me with a working program.

I know where you are coming from and feel the same way as I said above. They REALLY need to fix the bugs, re-write and tweak the code before it becomes as bad as ZBrush that users are leaving for Mudbox. They need to improve and tweak some of the UI stuff too and how some things are done before going to version 9 or whatever and re-write in Cocoa too.

I was talking with a person that will be at e-on regarding the upcoming show of Vue 8 and they are going to mention some of the things I have reported and proven for issues in 7.x along with some thoughts on better ways to handle some things in the software. He said he didn't know how far he would get because they tend to just do things on their own with little regard to their users.

Send me an email if you want after the showing and I will let you know what he found out once I hear back from him. Anything I can help with just PM me.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.