randym77 opened this issue on Feb 27, 2013 · 64 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Fri, 07 June 2013 at 9:05 AM
All I take away from the demo is that tree trunks are splined.
But do I want to spend $400 + $$$$ for Vue 11 Infinite to use that one said tree that's locked to my license of Vue? Because in my gut, this new plant program will make just basic trees. And we'll have to buy HD/procedural content from e-on to make more kinds of trees other than the default ones that come with the program. And if that bought content is locked to our plant program license, I don't want anything to do with that kind of file/content management.
Add to that, that the trees have tiled bark textures just like Vue trees do. And I'm not hurting for new trees at the moment. And I'm not a botanist. And a tree's appearance is subjective anyway. Not like humans, where you can point out right away how fake one looks. Who's gonna say, "Oh, that tree's bark is slightly off." Or, "That tree's roots should be more gnarly."
I can make a more realistic tree by modeling one, if I need a totally realistic one for a scene. If this plant program was $300 and worked with Vue 7 or later and made more realistic looking trees (ie, HD trees that were in VEG and VOB format, generated from my own texture images) than what Vue comes with, and there were no locked licenses to deal with, I'd buy the program right now. But e-on does not view me as a corporate customer, which is who they are after, even though they are using 3D hobby channels to market their software which is kind of dumb from a corporate's eye view.