Hi Vue-ers.

I'm looking at giving the Vue5i demo a go in the very near future (before a certain LW/V5i deal goes bellyup) and I've got a few questions after going through the V5i feature list on the eon site (haven't got to actually installing the demo yet). I come from a bryce background, so thats where my questions are sort of coming from.

[1] I didn't see any mention of displacement mapping - does it support it? Looks like it doesn't from the feature list.

[2] Rendering - does it allow plop renders (I couldn't find them mentioned on the feature list) - so that you can just re-render a small section of your image if you fix something up and not the whole thing again?

Also, can you import a previous render and then do a plop render onto that (its something that bryce does and I find it pretty handy).

[3] Lights - In bryce there are 4 different styles of lights - linear falloff, squared falloff, no falloff, and something it calls ranged falloff (where the light only illuminates out to a range and no further).

The feature list mentions Point light, Quadratic point light, Spotlight, Quadratic spotlight, Directional light.

The quadratic light falloff sounds a lot like the squared falloff bryce light, but what about the falloffs of the others?

[4] Now this is the tricky one that I'm really not sure there is an answer for ..... stability. For any bryce 5 users that may have read this - how does V5i compare for stability (my bryce 5 seems really really stable on the new pc that now has 2GB of ram). The e-on support forums are out of bounds for me (as I haven't bought the thing) and I suspect thats where the stability issues if any would be mentioned... and with the save disabled demo, I'm not sure I'll try too many "taxing" things with it.

Thanks for any help.

Message edited on: 09/28/2005 04:20

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