Quote - Thanks for the help offers, much appreceated - I wish e-on was as sympathetic and helpful as the vue community.
Writing up the (many) new bugs is a time consuming task and I doubt it's solvable by anyone but e-on. (Some maybe Mac related). I may come back to it when time (and frustration level) allow,  submit to e-on and post here.
In any case, my point in this thread was to present my point of view with respect to new (for pay) versions: when there are serious bugs in existing versions e-on should give priority to fixing those.
I'm not holding my breath...

Couldn't agree more with you. Let's hope e-on doesn't keep this up or else it will be losing some of their current customers much like ZBrush has. It can only go on for so long doing all this "upgrading" before they are forced to do something to fix the code base. Otherwise it will be so convoluted and messed up it will be unusable at all.

I'll let you know what I find out after the Siggraph 2009 show. Not holding out hope for much though.

Jeff

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