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I need to follow this thread.

I use Vue 2.1, it's a good software ! I think you can learn a lot with it (see also my gallery for examples of close-up renderings). Vue4 has now caustics, volumetric atmospheres and lights and other things. It depend what you want to do with the soft. If you search only free softs, Vue 2.1 is the best (cause it's a landscape renderer, but you can render every scene you want in fact). For instance, Moray+Povray is an other good choice, for example for interior scenes (but landscape, outdoors scenes will be far less realistics than with Vue). Yves

The Vue 2 that they give away in magazines realy realy realy sucks.. It has endless amounts of error, but it works. I still use a vue 2 that I got from a magazine....

Should use 2.1 (less bugs) :=) But some remains like those : - some objects imports have to be made in 2 times ; the first time the mesh is bad and any render with a transparent material will crash - object with transparent material can lead to program crash if a part is inside other objects (or something like this) - sometimes, with high polygon number in a scene, program becomes unstable. But if you are aware of these bugs, could be interesting to use Yves

I already have Bryce 5, but I can never resist the opportunity to get my hands on a free (LEGAL!) 3D program, or at least a fairly powerful one.;) Does anyone know if the 2.1 update is still out there somewhere on this big old 'net to download? These mags usually give you the patched versions, why they aren't this time I don't know...

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