Hi,

congratulations for your christmas gift :-)

It is no problem to re-install Vue on another machine and re-activate it there. Keep in mind that the license only allows one installation, so you should uninstall it on the old pc.

For the returning of the manual, you should aks eon's support :-)

Cheers
Ralf

Yepp, did the same.

The good thing is:

Shortly after I have ordered the book, I have received an e-mail with the Carrara6 serial and was able to buy the update to Carrara 7 :-))

Cheers
Ralf

Yepp, they have changed the update :-))

Although it reports the same built number, I now have:

-working metacloud previews

• opengl clouds are working
  -working preview of saved plant species

-and YES, options can now be changed

Seems this is the working version of Vue 7.4 :-)))

Cheers

Ralf

Just noticed that:

The update file I have downloaded first was:

179.149.333 bytes

The one I have downloaded a few minutes ago has a size of:

179.144.051

Seems e-on has changed something..... 

I'll give it a try.

Cheers
Ralf

FYI

I have reported it yesterday night (german time) to e-on.

I' have just received an answer from Lee (e-on support):

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the report - I was able to verify here. I'm forwarding to the developers.

Best regards.
Lee Randall

in my case:

PC, vista home premium 32 bit.

Cheers
Ralf

Sorry, it's me again.

I now can change my preferences because :

After the tests above I have ended with 12 instances of Vue in the task manager.

Killed them manually, restarted Vue and reset options to default.

Until I don't change anything in the display tab settings, anything is fine.

Strange: Things which worked in the beta, did not work in the final update....

Good night

Ralf

Hi there,

just installed this built (first install was over the latest beta, second one was over the latest official update).

Both give me some kind of strange things with the display options. Here is what happens to me:

The first start of the built makes me smile, because the previews of the metaclouds are back, and the cloud opengl preview works. Preview rendering of saved plant species is ok too.

Now comes the point where I unchecked the "limit opengl polygon" box.

After the next start of Vue I don't have:

Scene and line antialiasing, and I don't have checked any of the opengl boxes, except the limit polygone one.

I can check this boxes without problems and I have antialiasing and opengl previews, until I restart Vue.

All boxes are unchecked again....

To do a simple test: In Vue's main window try to change the "polygon count" to "free resources" and restart Vue.

Be warned: I end up with "polygon count" again. And (this was my third try) changing this setting unchecks the display boxes too.

The "Test video button" says my nvidia 8800 card would perform well .......

Running Vue with admin rights on Vista does not solve the problem.
 

Done a few other tests:

It seems that I can't change anything in the display options tab. Settings are switched back after the next start.

Anyone else with similar problems ?

Ralf

Hi triangle,

although it does not solve the preview metacloud preview, it's good to here that it is not my very special problem :-)

And I can confirm the problem with changing light color on a spectral model.

I thinkg, this is why it is called "beta" :-)

Cheers
Ralf

Just my thoughts:

As I read the news about 7.5 the first time at E-on's site I was confused about the pricing like many others.

Pay 295,00 for the upgrade and when Vue8 will come out pay again the full update price...

The more I think about it,  I did not fand that too bad.

With the 7.4 update we will receive a lot of features of the 7.5 update  for free.

The features not included in the free update are probably requested by some "pro users".

Those "pro users" usually have a "pro budget" for software updates, and for them $ 295,00 isn't that much.

For me - using Vue as a hobby - the missing features are not very interesting and I am glad to

get some new features for free.

And I do not have to pay twice for the 7.5 update and the 8 release.

Cheers

Ralf

Re-Installing the drivers was my first idea .

Fortunally with a beta driver the problem is obviously solved :-)

Ralf

I have already reported this to E-on.

I wish I could think in this "creative way".

Never had thought about to use plants not as plants.

I really like the idea.

For me it looks far more better now !

I like the idea, because I am testing various render settings too :-)

Obviously the new render engine does not need high values. As an example have a look at the render (anti-Aliasing) settings the "PeakingThrough" scene. Although the scene uses low settings the render looks great for me.

For outdoor scenes I usually follow Peggys advice and don't use higher settings than 46%  for the overall quality. For indoor radiosity scenes I sometimes leave this advice and use higher values.
Texture anti-aliasing is always turned off - except in very rare cases.

Object anti-aliasing is usually at optimized/crisp.

One absolutly subjective point: The "Final" preset in Vue7 produces imho better results than the one frome Vue6.

Another subjective one - because I don't have done exactly compared this:

The  Vue7.1 update has decreased the render speed a little bit.

Cheers
Ralf