I'm not positive but my machine runs better without having vue 4 and its cows. I run only vuepro and its cows. On simple scenes the cows behave on cue. I also manually assign ip's and give each cow a separate port #

try a basic scene with high render settings and resolution with only 2 cows. Try to find out if any of the cows work better then any of the others. It should work. It does for me on moderately complex scenes.

do you have multiple runtime folders or have you been editing the runtime folders? If not well I'll tell you what happened yesterday. I started my computer and started Vue. It asked for my serial # and when I wrote it in it said it was invalid! Upset but stuck I removed Vue and saved all the things in the eon folder that would be deleted when removed. I uninstalled, cleaned up the registry, and the windows folder of eon remains. I reinstalled and it worked fine with the same serial #. This might sound like it has nothing to do with you but I just wanted to say a reinstall of the very vigilent vue sometimes is valid option to a vue dilemma. Good luck, and I hope it pans out as a sweet vue render.

The renders are better because there are higher settings. Python scripts are cool especially the radiosity script. Plant editing is better and the wind is fun to play with. But the best reason is the automatic update of poser files in vue. Lights and shadows are much better with many more options. My favorite is to exclude objects from a lights.

hysterical...

Thats a good point but a lesson you just have to learn. Buyers Beware. Let it go.

I think mover4 is a rip off. It doesn't work well at all. Making animation in Vue with mover and poser causes many crashes. Vue is better as an image maker and not as a helping program for poser animations. Mover should be part of Vue for free because it has such a long history of not working well.

the water is soo cool looking. How did you make it? Maybe some splahes would help add to the realism of the picture. Great work.

thanks but why would daz display their products looking so bad.

how is it kaydar? Does it work well V3?

It happens to me too. Use morphs to get around it I think that will be your best bet.

the price is far roo high. everything is "pro" now and the word gets thrown around carelessly. Its pure sales robbery and the misuse of the word sidegrade.

they work great for small projects but anything professional, big, or complex they miss the mark, cause frustration, & waste more time then rendering alone.

My list of render cow problems has hit the floor. Its very disturbing and I'm using vue4pro. I render now mostly without the cows. Only a few projects meet the criteria for what I know will be acceptable to make the cows work. Its a shame.

No its not 3ds where everything snaps together like Legos. It would be nice but its not really a modeling program.