Hi I had the problem also in 3D it was sparadic at first and worcened with time. I found that the problem realy was coused by the fact my hard drive needed defraging. once I did that the problem disapeared and I havent seen it sence in eather my 3D or 4 versions. and yes I still use 3 when laying out large sceens as it is smaller and frees a bit more ram for layout work and not dorment bryce functions Im not useing at the time. hope this helps Later Vel

I have found That Vue gets cranky with large model imports. 3ds or ojb thow it is more so with ojb files than 3ds. to get around this I have taken to spliting my models in to smaller parts and asembling them in Vue. so try loading smaller models to test and see if it works for you. If not I would recamend a reinstall of Vue as I would then think you had a corupt file in the present install. hope his helps Vel

Hi again :) If you look on E ons sight you will see Vue 2 is still for sale and is 99.00 so it is reasionable to beleave that once version 4 is released that version 3 will also be available for a reduces price. if the scuttle but is corect that will only be a month or so :). Vue 2 works very well and as you have the abiluty to do post work :) you will not be to hampered :) with what you can produce. as to the trees and other plants ill be uploading, they are compleatly made by myself, Im not doing the conversion thing with textures and Solidgroth plants. at this time im working on reduceing poly counts so otheres with less memory and or slower puters can use them with out problems. laters :)

PS I will be uploading a few trees and plants for Vue 2 in about a week here in the freebee area in Vue2 format so you will be able to add thows to the plants you have if you want to see what they look like. look at a few of the back posts I have here the trees are in them :) later time for work Vel

Hi Mike :) yep on the 99 pound as the price is so close to standard and is the same or nealy the same as Vue 3 on DV I see it as a full price. the corect url for the converter program that works well and is free is http://bakhter.com go to 3D converters and you will see the link to Accutrans. Have fun :)

Hate to burst your bubble. But the upgraid dosent apply to the Mag release of Vue 2 you will have to pay the full price for Vue 3.X as well. so you may as well wait for Vue 4 then 3 will proly be a much lower prive as Vue 2 is now. as to more Veg for Vue 2 go to 3D cafe or some of the other web sites and dl the free bies from them. then go to www.bakter.com and dl Accutrans its a converter program so you can convert 3ds and others to ojb format. OJB is the format Vue 2.1 accepts. Hope this helps Vel

Smiles thank you :) this one has my fist item built in Vue just a simple dock but was fun :) the Materials are all done by me, and yes I misessed the bark on a few trees :/ this one is 2mill pollys and takes forever to select any thing hehe. guess I need to upgraid my meemory to 512 megs. laters :) Vel

lol You guys are nuts :)

LOL thanks all and yep sposta be apples. and thank you for the comlement these arent VUE trees :) there my Lightwave trees :) the water was sposta be muddy this is a recreation of a ketch basen from when I was a kid had an apple orchird hat was left grow wild had the best Grany smith apples :) havent played witht he lighting yet :) just set the sun to late afternoon :) will be playing with that after I get the water edges to look like water and not malasis or something hehe Laters Vel :)

Sounds great Barndt Please keep us informed :) Laters 0/` Vel

thanks Mike and yes thats part of it the main problem is the waters edge where it meets the shore, looks very unnateral to me there isnt any blending if you see what I meen. Vel

Hi :) Hate to tell you this Guys but 2.1 wont import 3ds files :/ so we have to use ojb dxf or raw. laters Vel

I had a hunch :/ that would be the case oh well. As to Meshes I make tree Mesh so if you guys need trees let me know I was given LightWave 6 for XMass and have the Tree Druid plugin to make trees :) the pines in my posted pic are from it. I dled the plant studio demo so the out put looks beter than the previews they give ? Ill have to reinstall it and try it again. Thanks for the info all.

kool I didnt know there was a ver 4 soon to be released :) Ill wait for sure :) thanks for the info

thanks yes both are from poser used it for a quickie hehe :) I have a lot of texture work to do to get any thing near a qualuty ill be happy with I see, But will be fun to play with :)