One of the problems that I see is if like me and vue 5i (that has allways worked for me without a problem no matter how big or small the scene or what I used in it) when a lot of other people where having problems I tried to help but I could not replicate the same faults people where having.

At the time as well as trying to replicate the faults other people where having I tried all day one day to crash vue5I but could not (and on less than 1gig of ram at the time)

In the end I was called a liar to shut up and go away. How do you think I felt about that!

The result is now I very rarely post or try to help anyone with there version of Vue, is that helping the vue community!

I understand peoples frustrations when vue or any program is not working as it should but sometimes just sometimes things do work right and maybe just because someone comes along and says "my version is working ok" that they should not be slamed straight away.

Wishing you all get working versions soon.
videodv.

Nope its a standalone proggie. use with any 3d app that can import and export obj

I'm just starting a new project will be using cinema 9.6 (soon upgrading to version 10)  exclusivley for this, will take between 3-4 months to complete.

So I think as I'm working on this I shall be thinking about vue 6I and make my mind up, but I can say now that I am not impressed at all.

I think my time with the vue line has come to an end, but who knows maybe in a few months I will change my mind.

In the meantime.

Cheers and happy renderings.

Videodv.

I also think you are correct, I was under the same impression about the Vue4pro + vue5I as yourself and was waiting for the boxed version deal.

Very sad to hear that e-on are not going to stand by what they have said in the past or at least the impression that they put out at the time about users who have both these versions of vue.

While I can see many great images done with vue 6I I am giving some very serious thought that myself and e-on have come to and end over this. (I have all versions of vue from 3 to 5I).

Never thought the day would come when I felt like this as I have always been positive about the vue line of products (after all we have all been through) but now?

Thinking hard about vue now.

videodv.

Yep same here I have a "content" folder with a different folder in for each item type named accordingly.

Me to I am waiting for the boxed version.

I wish e-on would change their mind on this issue and let us download the pre now then let us order the cd's and manual later as will not cost them or us any more than what we are doing now.

Cheers

Thanks Sharon very kind of you to put these up.

Great first look renders, what about the render times!

A big thanks from me as well

A big thanks from me as well

Hi LMcLean

Sorry been away for a bit, did you get this to work ok! or do you still need the file.

Chip cannot upload your file as the link in down.

Videodv.

Delete the node that you have highlighted (leave the color node conected) and connect the transparancy tab (on the bottom tabs to the right of the color node) to the picture connected to the color node.

You get the group names from cinema c4d, I tried both 3ds and obj without a problem.

Set your set your first material at frame 0 move the timeline to farme x, then change your texture. See the frog example in the manual.

Cheers.

Fixed illegal 'Replace-By' and 'Bake to polygons' actions on Metablobs objects.
Fixed potentially zero width poser hair.
Pixel aspect ratio is now properly stored within scene files.
Improved Poser import when the option to group figures as single meshes was not checked.
Fixed a crash that could occur when populating an EcoSystem material edited from the material world browser.
Fixed size of procedural terrains baked to polygons.
Added a new command line switch to recover HyperVue tmp files in a given directory ( -t"[path]" ).
Improved memory management of Vue and RenderCows when sending/receiving the scene and when sending/receiving rendered images.
Fixed a memory leak when rendering to screen.
Fixed rendering of transparent materials on terrain (shadows).
Fixed a multithreading issue with shadow maps.
Negative light sources were not properly handled.
Fixed multipass artefacts when using radiosity on objects holding mixed materials.
Fixed a problem with the preview of mixed materials depending on the altitude on a per object basis.
When splitting a mesh, the center of each resulting object could be incorrectly computed.
Applying a glowing material on clouds could lead to crashes.
Fixed inverted 2D planes preview in material editor.
Improved wireframe preview of Shade objects.
Fixed a problem where the mapping mode could change when editing a material with the basic editor.
Fixed Lens Flare shape when the pixel aspect ratio is not 1, or when using field interlacing.
Fixed greyed out "Edit Object" option when selecting more than 1 object and opening the context menu.
Embedded synchro data is now cross-platform.
Fixed a rounding issue for start and end frame.
Fixed a problem saving/loading a scene containing animations from a VIM file.
Accelerators could stop working on MacOS in certain cases.
Some keyframes, such as for the lights, were created, even when the auto-keyframing was disabled.

Improved render engine:
Improved adaptive supersampling.
Improved rendering of boolean objects.
Improved field rendering.
Fixed glow rendering with HyperVue.
Fixed face normal computing for degenerate N-gons.
Fixed artifacts when applying texture anti-aliasing over surfaces with variable transparency.
Improved Multi-Pass:
Improved network rendering with multi-pass.
Improved material color channel when using radiosity.
Fixed missing EcoSystem masks when rendering with HyperVue.
Fixed bad multipass shadow layer when using texture anti-aliasing.
Improved EcoSystem:
Improved compatibility of EcoSystems on split meshes.
Fixed variable scaling settings saving for EcoSystem materials.
Incorrect use of EcoSystem materials is now forbidden.
Fixed cancelling material editor after switching to EcoSystem type and populating.
Fixed crash when dragging or nesting EcoSystem materials into a material already used by an EcoSystem.
Improved object edition:
Fixed non rendering tree when Randomness setting was set to 0.
Fixed a problem when saving copy-protected plant species.
Fixed inverted planar mapping (warning: planar mapping in old scenes - such as alpha planes - may have to be inverted manually to get the same result as before).
Improved splitting and welding of meshes.
Fixed alignment of group sides.
Fixed trailing connection when dragging an object out of a group.
Default extrusion filter when creating a text object modified.
Invalid operations on Camera Targets (such as baking the target) are now forbidden.
Improved exporting and saving of objects:
Fixed occasional non uniform ground in object previews.
Improved Texture Map generation for exported objects.
Improved I/O Modules:
Implemented new version of Poser SDK.
Improved Shade compatibility.
Improved Cornucopia3D content support (cross-license compatibility).
Improved Network Rendering of Poser figures.
Improved loading of Poser figures.
Improved Poser executable detection.
Improved BMP support for 16 bits and 32 bits pictures).
Improved TIFF support.
Improved QTVR format support.
Fixed a smoothing problem when importing certain files.
Improved Atmosphere Editor:
Improved preview of cloud materials.
Improved edition of cloud layer list.
Improved performance:
Fixed a memory leak in wireframe mode when background draw thread is disabled.
Optimized bandwidth usage when network rendering.
Improved memory management.
Fixed an occasional crash when quitting Vue.
Minor improvements:
Added some Python functions to get the filename of a TextureMap Node, and set the transformation matrix of a Rotation Node.
Fixed occasional scrollbar overflows in Visual Browsers.
Mac shortcuts were not correctly displayed in the Keyboard Shortcuts Editor.
Fixed a rounding issue with Render Area size and position.

New! Added several MultiPass channels:
UVW Coordinates channel,
XYZ Normal Vector channel,
Diffuse Lighting channel,
Specular Lighting channel,
Material Color channel.
Improved handling of large images.
Improved Network Rendering.
Improved Pre-Animated Mesh handling.
Improved Scene Loading:
Improved incorporated textures loading.
Improved the loading of scenes containing empty meshes.
Removed incorrect messages when loading scenes.
Fixed saving and loading of Atmospheres without sun light.
Improved Rendering Engine:
Improved Hybrid 2.5D Motion Blur with EcoSystems.
Improved anti-aliasing system.
Improved light influence over Ecosystems.
Improved shadows render onto plants.
Improved rendering of transparent boolean objects and meshes with invisible volumetric materials.
Improved rendering of animation with strong distance blurring.
Improved Network Rendering with Multipass.
Improved Billboards lighting.
Improved Texture Anti-Aliasing over Billboards, Plants and EcoSystems.
Improved Rendering to Disk:
Improved strategy for very large renders.
Improved Camera post processing.
Fixed path names behavior.
Improved editing options:
Fixed missing leaves when baking some plants to polygons.
Improved welding.
Improved stability when using animated mixed or ecosystem materials.
Improved EcoSystem populate function.
Improved edition of exported objects.
Improved baking of boolean objects and plants.
Improved memory management when editing and loading EcoSystem materials.
Improved Import/Export:
Improved RLA, RPF and DXF support.
Macintosh: Improved HDR export.
Improved OBJ import.
Improved terrain export.
Improved Poser 6 support:
Added quaternion interpolation for improved support of Poser animations,
Fixed support of dynamic effects,
Improved Poser objects manipulation,
Fixed bad names when importing on Windows,
Fixed ignored single frame option when importing on MacOS,
Improved compatibility with Vue 4 scenes containing Poser figures.
Improved Python:
Added tkinter library files to allow python scripts to build graphical interfaces.
Improved compatibility with HyperVue,
Corrected several scripts,
Fixed PixelFilter callback function.
Improved Batch Rendering:
Fixed a problem with single-frame render,
Added the ability to shutdown computer at the end of a batch process.
Improved Serial Number management for Pro Studio upgrades and Extra-Plants.
Macintosh: Fixed RenderCow on Tiger (a separate update may be necessary, see update description for more details).
Fixed shifts between renderings when using synchronization plugins.
Other minor interface fixes and improvements.

The Rest of the info from the update page.