I'm using Vue 8 Infinite. Something has gone seriously wrong with the program, to the point where it is unusable. The size relationships make no sense at all. As you can see from the screen capture, size relationships are all out of whack, Trees are huge, the dinosaur imported from Poser is gigantic. Ecosystems are a mess as well.

I've tried updating to the latest build, tried uninstalling and reinstalling, nothing works. The program is broke and I can't fix it. I'm beginning to think my only choices are to either reformat my harddrive and start fresh from scratch with a clean slate,  or to upgrade to Vue 9 Infinite.  Both choices seem drastic. Any ideas anyone? I'm tearing out my hair...

Can't you simply resize objects that are too large? No need to uninstall:format HD or anything.

Terrains up to and including Vue 8 have always been very small - 28ftx28ft which a mountain does not make.  So trees will look huge.  On the world browser, you can see the size of your terrain - scale it up to the size you require.

Poser imports always come in huge.  A 6foot human does not import at 6foot.  

As Bruno rightly says, just resize the objects to what you need

What's a good size to resize the terrains to, so that the plant sizes make sense? BTW, off topic here, but do you think Vue 9 Infinite is worth the $300 upgrade price? Thanks

 

I do think Vue9 is worth every penny, it's the most solid release to date. The relighting feature itself is worth the upgrade price.

Quote - What's a good size to resize the terrains to, so that the plant sizes make sense? BTW, off topic here, but do you think Vue 9 Infinite is worth the $300 upgrade price? Thanks

What I do with all my objects inside of Vue is go to the Numerics tab and select the Size icon.  Then with sizing proportions locked, I enter a value for Z (the objects new height).  I use real-world measurements.  Terrains I will often give 2000ft for the Z value.

I do more or less the same as ShawnDriscoll.

At Conucopia3D you can get a "mesuring stick" object for free. I have a similar one I made myself (didn't know the free item). It's very handy when you import object that haven't been scaled properly. For instance, a house: If your in doubt about how tall etc. it should be, place the mesuring tool in a doorway and scale the house so the doorway is about 2 meters tall (give or take).
Of course you can scale things by comparing objects already present, but then you'll frequently have to make duplicates and depending on the nature of the objects, polygon count could skyrocket unnecessarily.
I could upload my version of the metric bars to the freestuff, if you'd be interested.

Hello Bigbraader

It will be nice to upload your metrics bar

I still have difficulty with the new numeric system in Vue 9

Quote - What's a good size to resize the terrains to, so that the plant sizes make sense? BTW, off topic here, but do you think Vue 9 Infinite is worth the $300 upgrade price? Thanks

 

Yes, provided you have a computer up to the task. Minimum a 64 bit, i7 with at least 12 gigs RAM and a good NVidia GPU. Most who have a bad experience do so due to the limitations of their systems.

Also do you need the features? Would you use them?

If your serious the Maintenance plan will save you over doing upgrades on all new releases.

Over all its really subjective.

I use Vue 9 Infinite on a single core P4 2GB WinXp 32-bit computer.  No problems yet.  But then I'm not trying to landscape a world.

Similarly I use Vue on a 32 bit system with 3GB of RAM - knowing how to work within your systems limitations is part of 3D unless your made of money.

I've some scaling objects on my website based on standard sports pitch sizes I made to help a friend who found it hard to work out how big things should be.