Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/contest.ez?contest_id=631

Hi! For all you folks who may have a copy of VistaPro laying around, this is a reminder that the banner contest ends this coming Tuesday the 24th at midnight CST. We have a copy of the MarsX CD for each of the top 3 winning entries. Besides being a nice exploration of Mars, the VistaPro DEM's on it can be imported into Bryce 4 or above. The 1st place winner also receives a copy of Distant Suns 6.0. A must for all you star gazers! Read all about the contest and rules at the abov link. Thanks! Irene Alora (VistaPro coordinator)

Dusts off his copy of Vistapro 3.0...........and threatens to install it....

That'll do! And if you're interested, you can upgrade to the latest version for a mere $25. ;-) VP4.2 doesn't have anywhere near the features of Bryce, but it's fun to play with for a change of pace. And it does populate your terrain with trees with just a click or two.

Yeh but I could never get the houses to showup....I did like the feature that let you fly around your scene on theback of a rocket....

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1064955

I've never used V3.0. If it works the same as with V4.x, then you have to go to the manual placement tab and click on one of the house buttons. Then you click on the placement window to place each house where you want it. You can use any of the texture buttons to get to the window to load texture maps on your houses. The link above take's you to one of my images that uses the houses. I think I used all 4 house shapes. To be honest, the houses are VP's worst and therefor least used feature. Using an image of a house/building and loading it as a 2D tree looks much better. Plus you can then control the size. Bryce makes a great tool for creating objects and terrains for use in VistaPro. If you'd like to chat some more about it, stop by the VistaPro forum. :)

-Irene-

Message edited on: 01/21/2006 00:18