And then in the "Any News on Vue R12?" thread the forum admin says very soon, the early part of November. Is probably what you were reading. So good. Thanks for the news.

In regard to the topic above it's probably a good bet they've been working on the particle system. Maybe grow some grass or something, but with the sale of the new plant editor they may want to limit that ability to the rather expensive proprietary format.

One thing to remember, in nearly every new version of Vue the rendering engine has been tweaked and refined with a nice increase in speed each time. That adds up after a while. Just saying. Maybe not so much the best reason to hand over tons of money but it's pretty good. Or the new speed could mean the old versions were kind of slow...