Wow, i ordered the book this week on wednesday evening and today it arrived with UPS at my door. Talk about fast delivery !

First impressions of the book:

• very nice illustrated with the correct explanations all around (from my personal pov)
• a nice heavy book (A4 size and 318 pages)
• everything has a nice fresh layout and i think it is fairly easy to read and understand
• i have a feeling that there will be some cool secrets (tips/tricks) explained

Pricing:

Ordered it on the E-On website and it shipped with UPS (standard) to Belgium:

• book = 41 euro
• shipment with UPS = 15 euro
• VAT (taxes) = 10,98 euro

total = 66,98 euro's

Conclusion = i'm happy with my newly bought book

The most green one hands down !

The best i ever achieved with fire in Vue is by using an alpha plane that projects a fire. I started with placing some rocks in a circle, adding lots of thin branches in the middle and than placing the alpha plane on it.

I also added a lot of cubes (!) which i used for sparks that are flying above the fire (as you would see on a real fire) and i thinks it adds a lot of reality to it.

This image whas never finished and i think i can search for a better flame to project on the alpha plane, but the reason i post the image is to contribute to this forum to let us all build a better fire :-)

Sorry for the low quality of the render (preview render)

Oh almost forgot to mention that i made the materials glow on the cubes :-)

if you cannot find / see the directory, you can always use "Terminal" to locate this directory and change the parameters via the Terminal.

Or if you don't know how to use Terminal, you can search google for an apple script that will unhide all the hidden folders on your system :-)

I have OS X 10.4.9 so this may be slightly different with yours, but if you right-click the folder and select "get info" you should be able to change the "ownership & permissions" to "read & write"

Hi seachnasaigh,

Did not even know there was such a thing as jittering and reduced pulsation options :-)
I really need to start reading the Vue manual again LOL !!

Thank you all for the tips :-)

Daniel1705, that 's some good work (especialy the growing leaves on the tree)
I will look deeper into that tread and experiment with the settings as you described (this is my first animation too)

Although i used 25fps (as you also did) i think i will use a bit more fps because at 25fps it seems that it is not flowy enough (if that is even a word LOL)

Wim

Thank you Chipp, that 's a neath trick indeed :-)

Too bad Poser 6 is platform specific :-(
So i will probably have to consider upgrading...

If they have problems with your images, than they should throw me out too... because some of my previews contain straight up nekked poser models

I shure will miss you around here...

Ah okay, so i won 't update but only install the upgrades 5 -> 6 and 6 -> 7 and apply the latest updates to 7.

Oh and crappercrappercrap... gonna have to download EVERYTHING again from Cornucopia and others plants & stuff i bought over time (that 's an awful lot !!)

Using Vue on the two computers will only be at first for reference to check what i have installed so far but that 's it.

Thanks
Wim

Aaargh :scared:

You 're scaring me here ! Where does it say on the e-on pages ? Can 't find it.

I installed Vue5inf from the cd, downloaded the Vue6inf upgrade and installed it (which put itself in the 64 bit folder, so no worries here) and just finished downloading the Vue7inf upgrade but not installed this one yet.

How can i install without wiping my HD's ??

Wim

Oh forgot to mention... am busy installing it from the original Vue 5 inf cd...

Thanks Peggy,

Installing Vue 5 infinite on my PC right now. This is a 32 bit version, so will it change to 64 bit after i apply all the upgrades/updates trough 7.x via downloads ?

Thanks
Wim