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E-on software is pleased to announce the availability of Vue d'Esprit 4.06. You can [download the update now from our website](http://www.e-onsoftware.com/Download/Vue4Updates.php).

Please note that this update is an incremental update from Vue 4.05 only. We will be releasing a full update (from any version of Vue 4) very soon.

Here is the list of bug fixes and improvements featured in this update:

• Image mapped bumps not applied correctly on rotated objects in Object Space mode.
• Bad shadows cast on boolean operations involving polygon meshes.
• Now possible to animate gels.
• Restored default system file browsers instead of custom browsers (except under Mac OS X v10.0.x).
• Bump maps were slightly offset relative to the color maps.
• Very rare problem when rendering polygon meshes with no thickness.
• Anti-aliased and Receive shadow material properties not saved/restored properly.
• Field interlacing options inverted in Advanced Animation Options dialog.
• Mixing transparent materials with different fade out colors would produce an unexpected fade color.
• Sunlight auto-decay not saved in standard atmosphere model.
• Volumetric materials not animated correctly.
• Incorrect panoramic renders in multi-processor mode.
• The Animation File Format Options box sometimes appears for the wrong format after changing file format with browser.
• Spherical and cylindrical mappings were flipped horizontally. Warning: mappings created with Vue 4.05 or earlier will be flipped horizontally in 4.06 (enter -1 X axis Picture scale to compensate).
• The views tooltip did not appear when OpenGL was enabled.
• Corrupted alpha channel when rendering to disk with anti-aliasing.
• Objects with the "Main view only" or "Hidden" properties would still appear in wireframe mode.
• "Sunlight masked by clouds" not restored after canceling modifications in Atmosphere Editor.
• Strong noise would appear when rendering some imported meshes with reflective materials.
• Crash when saving multiple objects or objects with linking/tracking.
• Problem when using Effects brush before and after changing terrain resolution.
• Problem when using Undo/Redo brush after changing terrain resolution.
• Reduced the height of Stones, Pebbles and Fir Trees, and made it independent of terrain resolution.
• Fixed Grit, Gravel and Stairs Effects brush modes.
• Memory leak when rendering some boolean operations that involve groups.
• Very bright highlights would sometimes appear quantized.
• Now displays a warning when attempting to save a PICT file larger than 4095 pixels.

Mac specific:

• Crash when using arrows with drop down lists.
• Problem with Japanese and other "exotic" text inputs.
• Print preview and print preferences would crash.
• Terrain exports would crash in file selection.
• TIFF export crashes.
• Random deadlocks in Wireframe preview mode.
• The scene preview did not work when the main view was maximized.
• View tooltips could appear above modal dialogs.
• Crash when closing sub-dialogs of the light gel material editor.
• Render not displayed in main view when using single threaded OpenGL mode.
• Rendering can now be aborted by clicking in the render.
• Random crashes due to conflicting threads.
• Tooltips would appear even when application was collapsed.
• Dragging a file onto an open scene would crash.
• Views not refreshed after hiding/restoring application.
• Now uses standard Mac "File modified, save?" message buttons.
• Drag-drop operations show a picture of the dragged element.

Windows specific:

• PICT file format not working when Quicktime not installed.

Kudos to those who participated in the beta testing.

Enjoy!
Steve.