Where at in those pages?  It seems it's all company and project info.  I just want to keep tabs on this as it goes on.

Ah, ok.  Has anyone done any architecture work in Vue 6 yet?  I guess I'm waiting to see if it's just SSS improvements and that sort of thing...or if the overall look s better.

How are Maxwell and Vue 6...comparable?

IMO, they couldn't be more different.

They have no obligation to tell you anything on their release date more than Q4.  It can piss you off that you don't know, but you don't necessarily have the 'right' to know just because you want to know.

But here's the prerelease of Vue 6 anyways.

Excellent decision. 

You cant piss and moan that it needs to be released...and then piss and moan when it's buggy because people wanted to see it before it was ready.

Less buggy Vue 6 and waiting >>>>>>>>>>> getting a crashing, unstable Vue 6 

It's not THAT critical.  I'll experiment and see what I can come up with. Thx tho.

Quote - Personally, I like your marina quite a bit. Most of the ones on the West Coast have just one entrance, as do any marinas where the ocean is rough. Speaking as a person who just spent 40 days at sea all along the Alaskan coast, every harbor I entered had a reasonably tall light pole at the entrance. This will be a white light, and its distinct from the navigational buoy lights. It is to mark out the marina and harbor entrances in the case of heavy weather or heavy fog. Even at Dutch Harbor out in the Aleutians, there was that light pole on the end of the spit. Also, any harbor than handles ships over 35 feet typically is required to have navigational buoys as well - usually both the red and the green to mark the two sides of the passages.

Great info btw.  I'll have to find some reference photos.

Yep, especially for a scene like this.  My VRay skills just aren't up to par yet.  Just haven't had time.

If added work and steps is what you dislike, DO NOT USE VUE FOR ARCH WORK.

We use it at my firm.  Oh god how I wish for a DWG Link like Max has.  Instead, you must use ACAD to export a 3ds and import THAT into Vue.  Now here is the kicker.  3ds files have a 65,000 verticie limit.  Seems like a lot, but you never really have total control over how items are converted into the 3ds, causing you to sometimes have to import various items seperately.  The auto reload basicaly doesn't work cause if you change the dimensions or size, it moves your re-import.  Try matching that in Vue.  Oof.  Also, there's no precision texture mapping.  Getting items to scale is a pain in the ass.

Vue = NO BUENO for arch vis work.

Right, but in my opinion, Carrara is garbage and is 100% definitely what you do not want to use in arch vis work.  I'm not impressed witht he render quality.  Like....at all.

Quote - I started using Mental Ray in VIZ, AND I HATE VIZ WITH A PASSION... but at least it's fairly stable, eventhough Viz is soooo overly complicated to use.  I would get MAX 8 and the VUE xStream plugin... THAT'S THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS- render to 60 computers at once with MAX and Backburner, but get MENTAL RAY realism.  Unfortunately, they don't have xStream for VUE and VIZ 6 yet... so I'm stuck with one or the other.

Well obviously you haven't seen the xStream forums.  It's LITTERED with bugs and crashes and will not work with VRay.  HORRID decision as over half of Max users have and use VRay.

Think again  :)

I advised my bosses NOT to purchase Vue 6...that I see no real useful improvement for Arch Vis.  Yeah, they're making things like Ecosystems better, Godrays, Clouds, but that has NO use at an architectural firm.

Point being, 95% of geometry I create is from an external source...not built IN Vue.  It simply cant handle imported items very well.  It's good at instancing and vegetation, but as far as lighting, speed of render, realism of materials, stability, precision texture mapping, memory management, and ease of use (for arch vis) go, it's simply not up to snuff.

If it were ME personally, I'd check Vue 6 out.  But since it's for a job with deadlines and a bigger budget than my wallet, I'm pushing elsewhere.  I'll stick with displacement grass and VRay proxies vs this.

I mean, my scene that consisted of 3 buildings, 3 sets of Lowpolygon3d people, about 20 Lowpolygon3d autos, and 10 placed trees...should NOT crash with 2GB memory.  That's simply not enough going on.  I wasn't able to add grass (had to use a texture), flowers, a horizon of trees...nothing like that.  That's rediculous IMO.  The scene used over 750MB or the ram while just sitting there, doing nothing.  Not when rendering...when SITTING THERE.

I was highly disappointed in Vue's performance in this project.

I'll give it this though, it WILL pump out a nice image of the marina I'm doing next week.  Now THAT is something it can do well.

Who's to say Vue 6 is...improved?

I'm attempting to get my superiors to get Viz/3DSMax and VRay.  I'm tired of the instability and what appears to be THE worst memory use and management in the history of 3d apps.

I got it done with a lot less quality than I wanted...and ultimately, a lot less quality than THEY wanted.

Go figure.

Just had crash #2.  Maybe I'll uncheck the computer that's running vue's file from the cow list once I get closer to a finished render...

I've never seen concincing interior lighting of a room that HAD a ceiling in Vue, but that's just me.  :(