My longest one took me 47 hours!After finishing that I found out that the 48 bit-dithering was activated! Bryce 4,Athlon 1,1Ghz,1024 MB ram,file size 60 MB, 300 dpi resolution at 7800 by 4650 pixels. rollmops :-) ps:get some beer instead of a book !

I had the same problems for a few times,so i would like to know a solution for that myself.

No, although you're using open gl for the preview, the renderwork has to be done by software. Accelerator cards ,even a gforce 4, are built to render fixed catalog of forms an textures, which have to be delivered by a game-engine. The structure of the hardware needs that kind of cooperation in order to render in real-time. A shader-unit on a gaphic-card needs to know what to do before the work can be startet. A rendering-software is not a game-engine. So there will allways be some kind of "delay". To get rid of that,your cpu should have at least 10 GHZ !Maybe you have to buy a gforce 25!! But seriosly,a normal workstation with only one or maybe two processors cannot be so fast at the moment. ps:maybe you should use at least 1Gig ram rollmops :-)

Hi,try to use the tree trunk of the dead trees and choose a texture you like most for the material instead of the original one (fototexture ?).For the leaves you can get some textures of the freestuff-area (high-definition)and apply them on alpha-planes.From the point of view shown in the picture you do not have to built the complete tree to get a more realistic result. rollmops :-)

I think another important point is the system youre running!I my case its Windows NT 4 with SP6.The great advantage is the possibilty to control the systems parameters like memory-adressing,etc.If youre running Win 98 Se,Win 95 or Win Me, you might miss some of that features. I didnt clearly found out the limits of my computer yet,but I startet with an 6 year old 166 MHZ Pentium; what forced my to look at resourses of my PC. My scenes are getting bigger and bigger but I still try to reduce (I hate non realtime-previews and render- ing-times over 47 hours !). So reduce polys whereever you can ! rollmops :-)

I think my wish for Vue 5 would be an improvement of the export abilities (plants!?). rollmops :-)

Honestly,Vue in his assumption of features is a wonder- full programm !Although Im using other software as well (even of the 1990 Euro-league),I decided to buy Vue after testing the demo for a few months.To get a result Im not using only one programm for a project. But anyhow there is everytime something to improve; not in general perhaps,but in details. rollmops :-)

Hi,I read about that mysterios "polygon-limit" in my German manual.Maybe the authors refered to their minimum 300 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB Ram .Anyway JoeBlack you should get the 4.1 update as Guitta said. rollmops :-)

As already said,wow! Im working with an Athlon XP 1800+ and 1024 MB ram. Even my computer wouldnt feel convenient. In the handbook I got with Vue 4 600000 polygons are announced the be the limit! My scenes are about 2 million polygons,and even programms as cinema 4DXL (6.3)are getting slow ,I can tell you! So reduce the amount ,use less in the background and more in the foreground when necessary. rollmops :-)

Hi, what about much more speed in the final rendering !! And more insight and control in the great black-box solid-growth (exchange of materials,calibration of the plant parts).At least more precision of the working windows would be nice. ps. why is an imported object almost invisible in the wireframe ? rollmops :-)

Hi,here's another possibility:try to learn something about the essentials of fotofinishing (colors,filter- ing,effects,etc.).There are plenty of magazines about that.Personaly I think it's easier to understand the "digital way" if you know somthing about the "analog" side. rollmops :-)

Hallo Stephan, die Scene scheint mir wirlich gelungen ,prima! Es sind f mich wie die anderen schon bemerkten nur noch kleine Details,die vielleicht noch ergzt werden knten: die Stra vielleicht mit einer bumb-mapping versehen (aufhellen?);den Bgersteig mit einer "verblichenen" Betonstruktur;allgemein Texturen mischen (Asphalt und Schmutz).Zumindest in Vue 4 knen Materialien mit beliebig vielen Texturen definiert werden (Vorsicht: Byte-Monster!). Eventuell mit Photoshop vorbereiten. Was ist mit der Baumgruppe am Ende der Stra?Aus komposi- torischer Sicht empfielt sich vielleicht noch eine Hser- zeile dahinter.Dennoch, deine Detailversessenheit geflt mir ! Mit freundlichen Gren rollmops