Thanks a lot, Lew.
Very valuable insights. I'll continue playing around with Vue PLE and C4D for a couple of days before I'll make up my mind.
Regards,
Claus

Quote - Well, maybe what you COULD do is some compositing... This might be easier than you think if we're talking about a flyover.

Vue6 Infinite has a Sync plugin where you can bring in camera data from other apps (C4D is one of the - also Max, Maya, etc.) So in C4D you can fully animate your ship flying through the air, maybe changing configurations during flight - example: like an F-14 Tomcat folding its wings back to go supersonic, then bursting forward even faster and leaving the camera behind.

In C4D you can set up your camera data and path, the animation of you model, and render everything out with an Alpha Channel.

Bring the camera data into Vue and create the environment it is flying in/through/over and animate THAT using the C4D camera. Bring it into something like After Effects and slap the 2 together, and you can also add other atmo FX, particles, birds you fly past, etc.

This would also go faster as each app would render its respective setups faster, rather than doing it ALL at once with FX, etc. which would chew up your computer's processor.

Did that make sense? I hope so - good luck and have fun!
-Lew ;-)

Thanks a lot, that made a lot of sense. As long as you don't have shadows from C4D objects on Vue scenery composing is a good and fast way to do it.
Combining objects from the two sources makes me wonder about render speed. How do the render times compare of a Vue scene rendered in Vue and the same scene rendered in C4D?

Quote - Vue 6.5 xStream integrates Cinema4D with Vue's landscaping.

Do I have to get the xStrem version to get this feature? I had hoped to get away with the "Pro Studio" ;-)

Thanks for all your input. As I already did a lot of 3D modelling in the late 90's I know many of the technologies used to do 3D. This makes it harder to choose a tool, as I don't need to learn the basics.
I'm testing Cinema4D at the moment. It has an amazing range of functionality.
And Vue is just great. I'd like to do 3D animation in a Vue landscape, like driving a car through the area or flying with an airplane over it.
Can this be done without composing picture by picture from the two sources?
cu,
Claus

Quote - You can only import the mesh, no animations, if not from Poser or Max ( the latter only possible with Vue Infinite)

So, I'd have to animate the mesh in Vue. But AFAIK Vue can only move meshes around and scale them. Vue can't animate them, define skeletons or morph them. Am I correct?

Cu,
Claus

 Hi,
thanks for all your responses.
Are skeletons and IK stuff exported too if you save in the modeller and transfer the data to Vue?
In the "good old days" export/import was a pain.
Cu, Claus