Vue "Frontier" is on sale for $49 to members of Cornucopia3D. I thought that was a  pretty good deal since I have after more than a decade of using Bryce I have become tired of crashes, bug reports, useless mats, plants that have been in there since the dawn of time and the addition of IMHO basically silly things like the instancing lab. They obviously have no intention of simply fixing the fundamental problems and if Windows 7 would allow me to re-install Bryce 3 I would do so since I still have my original CD.

On to why I don't think Vue is such a good deal either. It is obvious that my 5 gig quad core is not adequate to the needs of the software, so to use the program to its potential  will require construction of a dedicated machine. More $$$. I didn't understand the concept of meshes that were "locked" to my license. Now I do. It means that unless you buy their "import" module for $129 you cannot use most freebies or any that are not vue format unless they were designed for vers 9. This is like buying a canvas and then finding that it will only accept dedicated oil paints conveniently available from the canvas maker for a price.

Possibly the final straw dropped this weekend when an animal model I bought on the Daz site never showed in my downloads which required a formal fix request to Daz. Surprisingly they answered on Saturday but the mesh was in mac format and I run pc. The gentleman at Daz informed me that as a courtesy he would change the download format so as to be usable but that he was not required to do so. Excuse me? You are going to provide me with what I paid for as "a courtesy"?

So is time for 'new' software? I dont think so. More likely it is time for 'no' software.

 

Mike