I'm maybe wrong, but I suppose this second version of Windows XP will be the XP 64 bits. I think that, effectively, it will be a very good purchase. The only thing that can cause problem with this version, if I understand what a friend told me, is that you will need the drivers of all the components of your computer in 64 bits. It will be easy if you have standard components (ATI, NVidia, CreativeLabs, Asus, etc...) but less sure with 'exotic' ones (Shuffle's motherboards, for example...). And, the last think, is that W XP64 will be worth the money if you plan to acquire a AMD Athlon 64 bits...

Yes, this is really cool !!! Thanks to both of you... (Now, a message for this forum's users : sometime, ask a question to Gebe, not that it interrest you at this time, but it will surlely be helpfull for some of us !)

It looks to me that it isn't a 'Light' problem. I've rendered a scene (with vue 4.06) under Windows ME, with over 120 lights, all casting shadows, and approximatively 20 of them having volumetric settings. It took a REAL long time to render, but I did it ! :-) Maybe a glowing materials problem, because I'm actually working (with Vue 4.1, this time) on one scene that sometime freeze... A thing that worked for me one time was to select all elements of your scene, except camera, and save it as a .VOB file. The creating a brand new file and re-import this object... You could try this... Hope it could help...

Yes, it looks strange... And I agree with MeInOhio to say that your boat looks, in this render, like a whale. Probably when you problem will be fixed, it will look like you wanted to... :-)

It will be an upgrade !!! So, go buy and I hope to see your productions soon here... :-)

Wow !!!

Argh, Lynn !!! Will you never come to France ??? :-)

All you need for giving your pictures this kind of 'magic' is... blood, sweet and tears ! ;-) More seriously, for making buildings and urban environments, you can use the simple primitives of Vue. With lots of imagination and patience, you'll see that boolean operations can make incredible things... If you want to start slowly, go to the renderosity's freestuff section. Here, you'll find buildings and other urban models. Use'em, and maybe mix them with 'booleaned' vue primitives, for hours of pleasure... :-) My only one advice is : a good picture are for the major parts good textures and, as important, good light settings ! The most beautifull pictures that you can see in the galery are not always complexe pictures. Placement of elements could sometime take only three or four hours, even less... But, the textures of all these elements, what makes a Poser character don't look like a Poser character, but a real people is the time you spend to work on textures. And, for the global look of your scene, for making all elements exists in harmony, it's lighting settings... A free other advice : always think that you can make all you want to make. The only trick is to find how... and if you don't find by yourself, post your questions here...

I agree with Guitta. The only thing I wanted to add is that animating camera is really easy. So, you can eventually try to import your viz4 model into Vue for testing camera animation.

Wow, Tradivoro, looking at your picture makes me think you should write a tutorial on 'How to build Keyboards with Terrain Editor' !!! :-)

Wait and see, shihp, wait and see... You never know what e-on is able to plug in their futur Vue5 or 6... :-)

I agree with sittingblue that gree with me !!! ;-)

999$ ?!? Glp !... Mmmmm... But the waves were so cute, Guitta... I believed that I was feeling wind on my nuke skin... and... 999$... LoL

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