No, but they are frighteningly common.

When the 64bit version is available on the Mac as a demo, I will see how it performs.

Adam

Attached Link: CG Talk thread

I am mac based and had nothing hut trouble with any version  of Vue, including Xstream - havent used it since 6.5 but have been making enquiries again lately to see if it is improved at all - according to what I have read, it seems it might be a bit better on the Mac now, and definitely better on the PC, but the opinions do seem very varied - not truly reliable software by anyone's books.

Adam

Thanks Frank,

Yeah, I'd really like to have a proper working version of Vue to draw upon.

Eric - yes I replaced the 7300GT with an ATI HD 4870 in that machine, and I have a 8800 GT in my other MacPro, but it has been a long time since I bothered with the Vue Infinite 6.5 versions, and until I read the recent compatibility info on the 7300. I had no idea that might be the cause of the issues I was having - although I am not convinced it can be only that, and since you have it working with one...

Adam ;)

Thats good to hear! - bizarrely, the e-on blurb suggests that the 7300 cards are incompatible with Vue, which made me wonder whether that was why I had soooo much hassle with 6.5 on my first gen 3Ghz 8 core Xeon.

Waiting on the demo.

Adam

..ah the voice of the blindly devoted - right on schedule.

Did you notice that others feel the same by any chance?

Adam :]

Nice to see I am not alone here - I mean I knew I wasn't, but it's good for the blindly devoted to see ;)

Adam

Yeah I am Mac based - always have been! :)

I have owned Vue 4 d'Esprit - it was terrible - never used it after half a dozen attempts where it crashed for not obvious reason.

I have both Infinte 6.5 and XStream 6.5, and yes, XStream is simply unuseable period., Infinite has been used to make a few pieces, so I have to give it that - I have completed 3 or 4 images with Vue 6 Infinite, but they were all done with quite a few crashes, I just managed to get far enough and save regularly to make it feasible. That ISN'T a good way to work though, especially on a deadline!!

Maybe I should try Infinite on the Windows XP system on my Mac.

Adam :)

I wonder if it is more of a Mac issue than Windows then!?

Adam

Thelby, yes I read that Indiana Jones related matte painting article! - this only adds to my frustration really - I know it CAN be used successfully, but it is not within my experience of the app, and that is only reinforced by what I read elsewhere. I like the idea of Vue, I just haven't seen it become a reality yet.

Maybe the users who have it running 90% reliably could post their system (hardware and software) specs and Vue settings, so those of us who only get that 90% + reliability in all our other apps, might disssect what it is about Vue that makes it so temperamental!?

Would be useful.

Adam :)

At the risk of sounding like a troll here (which is far from my intention), I ask myself that very question about ILM often! - have asked it here before, and never had an intelligent answer. Do they have an off the shelf copy or one that has been customised for them - you know, a finished bug free version?? ;)

I'm well aware of my computers capabilities btw - I don't just do this for a hobby. The point is, I have run 3 versions of this app on 5 different machines, all with different specs, different chip architecture (G4, G5 and Intel Xeon) and I have yet to have a version that could be called reliable by even the wildest stretch of the imagination, so I am GENUINELY fascinated by anybodies accounts of reliability - it's not my system, or the many, many others that have no faith in e-on's software that need examination. but moreover the few who are 'sympton - free' that need their systems placing in a lab with a whole bunch of e-on staff, so that THEY can understand why the things works for these guy, and not everybody else! ;) Either way, you obviously have crashes too, yet feel it's ok, cos you can anticipate the imminent crash!? - Not what I call a good software experience.

And yes, Cinema is the easiest to learn of the pro modelling/animation packages out there, and Vue is not in that arena. However the Vue interface, although a little quirky, isn't too bad at all. It's just unfortunate that you have that constant state of anticipation that if you hit the wrong button at the wrong time, the App will disapear from under your mouse pointer!

Adam

Well unfortunately, being a moderator on the site, I still had the displeasure of reading your colourful comment Trepz!! - what exactly is YOUR problem???

I personally am amazed that ANYONE can achieve anything of any value in Vue 6 or any other incarnation - after owning Vue 4, Vue 6i and Vue 6 XStream, and having it be the most unreliable piece of software I ever owned, therefore I am entitled to a little cynicism, and an opinion about how  it is for me, and a whole bunch of others!

Please, somebody explain to me how it is for them, and if they could call it a reliable application!? - and then explain how e-on can walk away from one version without fixing it, and expect users to pay out a good few more hundred dollars to have thir next, unfixed version!?

Adam

It's as dead as the day I bought it! :]

Adam

Was it ever stable for you on any previous version?

Adam

"Powerful, Realistic, Productive, Dependable" - I'll await the Guinea Pigs to find out if that is true or not... odds are against it :/

Adam

Yes, but did they finish it first!? ;)

Adam