I thought the forum here would be buzzing.

Okay maybe you are like me and still downloading.  I'm away from home for a couple of days.  but I will be checking here.

Let me know if there is a better poser sdk and if genesis now imports okay too from poser.

Love esther

Quote - I thought the forum here would be buzzing.

Okay maybe you are like me and still downloading.  I'm away from home for a couple of days.  but I will be checking here.

Let me know if there is a better poser sdk and if genesis now imports okay too from poser.

Love esther

I have it downloaded and installed. Had a little time to explore. There is a new Poser SDK (October 2013). However, there is no difference in the way Genesis is handled to previous versions. Not surprising as the Genesis compatability comes from the DSON importer plugin and not from the Poser native SDK. So unless DAZ finds a way via the plugin or Smith Micro decides to implement the Genesis import properly natively I do not see that this will change or is within e-on's power to change.

This Vue release is another nice maintenance release that has many subtle updates but no big ticket items. The function editor is now following the Plant Factory model which I quite like.

You can now set the sun by giving a position on an earth map and set the time of day. Quite neat.

There is a new color mode that uses "natural grain", basically a simple way to avoid plain coilored surfaces. The eco systems seem to behave better and faster and there is new control for"clumping". Useful.

Interaction with TPF is also improved.

Now I need to go back and play some more.

Ciao

TD

tnks!  Have fun.

show us a render.

Ciao

TD

The new physically accurate lighting model would be the main improvement. That and the exposure filters.

I've only done a couple of tests but the results are wonderful. The first thing that made me smile was seeing a realistic looking skyline against a water plane. Just place the sun and render.

Plants from Plant Factory still slow things down dramatically. I'm not sure I see all that much improvement there.

I've noticed this.... NEW! Ultra-realistic SolidGrowth vegetation: 175+ species. Can someone perhaps render a few of these new ultra-reaslistic trees? I'm very curious about those and how many new items of vegation there really are. Are they really so much better then the previous ones?

Quote - I've noticed this.... NEW! Ultra-realistic SolidGrowth vegetation: 175+ species. Can someone perhaps render a few of these new ultra-reaslistic trees? I'm very curious about those and how many new items of vegation there really are. Are they really so much better then the previous ones?

Hmm, where did you see that? I don't see it listed in the new features and as far as I can tell there are no differeces with respect to the old plants. Would surprise me if they changed anything there now that they have TPF. Is that statement somewhere on their website or email?

TD

Attached Link: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_2014_infinite/?page=2

Quote - It's in the feature list, under vegetation. If you can't see any difference, then how new is it? Perhaps there are a few new trees only?

Ah, I did not see that. My guess is, that it is a typo. I have compared the files from 11 and 2014 and all .veg files I checked were identical to the byte. I did not see any new files. It also is not mentioned in any of the promo emails or in the web desrciption of NEW stuff. 175 new plants would be a big deal, I am sure they would not hide that in a list.

Except for the word "New" the statement is identical to what was said in version 11,10,9 as far as I remember. Solid Growth is now legacy tech with TPF being the new main format for plants. I would not expect any significant developments in that area.

I keep digging and will let you now if I stumble upon anything interesting or new.

Ciao

TD

Cool, thanks! It would be a major selling point for me, but I guess it's not that way.

Does anyone know if there are any additional items included in  the "Extras" disk?

Allo

I have tried to download the extra stuff  3 times without success (stop before finish)

Any things news in this extra zip ? I have all the extra content from older versions

I can import Poser pro 2014 files without problem

thanks

I was able to download the Extras file, but then when I go to unzip it, I get an error message that "this is not a valid zip file."

I downloaded the extra yesterday evening and it did unzip. I have not installed anything yet.

So far the only new things I found are two scenes from Quadspinner that illustrate the new photometric lighting.

TD

I only had time/energy after downloading last night to have a quick play but the new atmospheres seem to be really pretty.  I think clumping looks like it could be really handy for quickly making more realistic looking distributions of plants, rocks etc too.

sadly on mac it doesn't open in mavericks.  I saw others in the maintenance forum with the same issue. it just won't launch so I can't play.

Boooooo

Just wondering... with the current light systems, you have the global lighting adjustments in the atmosphere editor. This way you blend sunlight with ambient light and so on. Can you do the same with the new photometric lights? Does anyone have a screenshot of those where you can change settings?

Quote - Just wondering... with the current light systems, you have the global lighting adjustments in the atmosphere editor. This way you blend sunlight with ambient light and so on. Can you do the same with the new photometric lights? Does anyone have a screenshot of those where you can change settings?

If you use the "Photometric Spectral" model those adjustments (light intensity, balance, skylight, colour, gain)  are not available (greyed out). Otherwise the editor is unchanged. On the sun panel you have the additional options to set real world sun position coordinates and time (that is available for all lighting models). There is a checkbox to allow override photometric settings which then allows one to adjust these.

Ciao

TD

Thanks!

Quote - There is a checkbox to allow override photometric settings which then allows one to adjust these.

Just to get it clear, if you use this checkbox what can you adjust?

Quote - Thanks!

Quote - There is a checkbox to allow override photometric settings which then allows one to adjust these.

Just to get it clear, if you use this checkbox what can you adjust?

Correct. With the box checked you can adust the parameters that are previously greyed out.

TD

wish the mac version would launch.  Has anyone got it working yet on mac with mavericks?

okay got a new download from e-oon with a fix in it for macs, and now is working.

getting a message saying yoru configuration is flagged as being incompatible with the background draw thread: vue will now restart without this option.

Is that a bad thing do you think?

I'm still waiting my Vue email w/serial and download links.  My Maintenance Paln even has over a year to go.  I posted to the support site, so we'll see.  I did get the email announcement.

Anyway, I'm envious of you guys!  Good luck!

oh that isn't good.

I hope you get it soon.

but don't worry - I still managed to crash it within 10mins just by navigating in some of the content menus.

Norm1153

this might be redundant to what you have done so far. But check your spam. Things go in mine that sshouldn't . Sometimes stuff from the same place with the same type headings gI in nd sometimes they don't. Eon has mentioned this audio.

Yeah, I thought of the spam thing, but didn't find it, UNfortunately.  Funny though, because I got the announcement email.  That one mentioned that download link/serials would be in a separate email.  Oh well!