I originally came here years ago when I was playing around with Bryce. I had many issues with the program. Hard learning curve and my inexperiance. I pretty much gave up on it. As the years went by I tried Mojoworld and a few others. Dabbling here and there for a week or two with pretty much horrid results.

Durring the last 10 years or so my main artistic focus was landscape photography and photoshop. I'm not an artist so I took pictures. During that time I guess a few things changed. I know how light works now. I know photoshop.

A year ago some health issues cropped up that put a damper on my photography pretty much permanantly.About a month ago I picked up Vue 7 and started putting some serious effort into learning it. A month later and its coming along fairly well. I'm having fun and again have an outlet for whats in my mind.

During the last month a few things about Vue have become very clear. Its only a part of what makes a good picture. I use Geocontrol for my terrains and photoshop all my renders. Without the other 2 programs I doubt I would be using vue.

As a beginning vue artist I don't know how good my work is but I do know that without the backround in photography I would have been lost.

BBRichter

My two cents...

Just upgraded my box to an I7-920 Platform. Spent $1200.00 for the upgrade minus the hard drive, OS, DVDROM and PSU. Chip Overclocked to 3.6 and the dominator mem overclocked to 1800. Spending $1200 vs $3000 plus for a mac was a no brainer. Here are my Vue 7 Benchmarks.

Here is what I purchased...

CM HAF
CM V8 - Temps under full load are aroung 66-67
Asus P6T OC/Palm
6 Gigs Dominator 1600 - overclocks nicely
EVGA Core 216 260GTX OC

CPU: I7-920 3.6ghz
Build: 38524
Compilation: 64-bit
Operating system: vista

C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark72_Land.vue : 161.4 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark74_Cerro Verde.vue : 84.6 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark77_RadiosityRoom.vue : 71.0 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark7Terrain.vue : 109.9 s
C:Program Filese-on softwareVue 7 xStreamPythonVueMark711_Peak.vue : 68.9 s

VueMark7 score : 213

BBRichter