Hello!
Just got an email that the Vue8 pre-release version is now available for download for those of us that have a maintenance plan. I am downloading right now. Here is the main info from the message:
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Vue 8 Infinite, a major upgrade to one of your products under maintenance, will soon be shipping. As part of your maintenance contract, you will receive this new product at no charge. If you like, you may even download a pre-release version of this product today by following the instructions in this e-mail.
New features available in this upgrade include:
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3D Terrain Sculpting: Allows users to freely sculpt terrain features such as overhangs and caves directly into Vue standard and procedural terrains.
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Localized Infinite and Procedural Terrain Sculpting: Combine the best of both worlds with the ability to locally sculpt features on the infinitely detailed procedural terrains. Now, users have the ability to fine tune or completely rework localized areas on procedural terrains providing even greater artistic control and creativity.
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Scene Context Sculpting: Allows users to sculpt terrain features in the context of scene elements. Sculpt rocks and reliefs around vegetation and architectural buildings.
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New Stratified Terrain Fractals which allow the creation of richly detailed stratified, terrain features.
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New Directional Displacement Engine for textures to create more detailed and life-like surface features with greatly increased performance.
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3rd Generation Spectral Atmospheric Technology which dramatically improves the quality and realism of clouds, god rays, and atmospheric shadows.
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Direct Re-Posing of Rigged Meshes: Rigged and pre-animated mesh objects can now be re-posed directly inside Vue. Currently supported formats: 3DSMax, Collada, and Vue Pre-animated Meshes.
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New Shader-based OpenGL preview engine for improved real-time performance and previewing accuracy.
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All the new features introduced in Vue 7.5: camera mapping, planetary rendering, cross-shadowing and cloud masks, spherical cloud maps, animated EcoSystem populations, and more.
More details on the new features as well as the complete description pages will be disclosed at the time of release.
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Ciao
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