Forum: Vue

Subject: Mac Users OK ?

jerr3d opened this issue on Oct 01, 2002 ยท 6 posts

jerr3d posted Tue, 01 October 2002 at 10:20 PM

I want to buy Vue and Mover for Mac, but having read thru the forum it looks like a few of you are having problems. I am wondering if these problems are common and if they have been fixed? thanks!

wabe posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 1:08 AM

Well, i am using Vue on a Mac but i don't have Mover 4. I think you can take the risk. Vue is a reliable piece of software - with some weak points, like all other software packages. The biggest issues from my point of view are: Colored texts in the file dialog boxes. Sometimes hard to read. But it seems that this is more an inconsistancy between OS X and Apples own developer descriptions. Several programs do have this "bug". Vue 4.x is the first version on the Mac. And this version is not able to read Vue 3.x files. This cuts you off from a lot of material available on the Internet . If you don't have access to a windows version of Vue (Vue comes on a hybrid cd). Some users do have problems with OpenGL and Vue. But i don't have this problems. Maybe this problems are fixed in the last update (4.1). The display quality in the working windows of imported object (3ds, dxf,...) is a little poor. But you can find workarounds for that (wireframe boxes etc). The rest are the normal things and are not platform dependend. So i never had any regrets of buying Vue.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

TheWingedOne posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 7:43 AM

Jerry, after I found out how to get the Poser import working (s. link). I'm really satisfied with my purchase of Vue. :) Unfortunately I can't tell you anything about Mover either. If you have specific questions just ask. :))) Phil

Quoll posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 12:17 AM

Vue is really excellent, much better than Bryce in so many ways. But I am having massive instabillity issues with Vue 4.1 and OSX 10.2.1. I would suggest buying the program but expect a lot of crashes until a patch comes out, which I hear e-on is working on now.

jerr3d posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 8:47 AM

So I started looking at the Vue gallery a few nights ago. Several hours later I came out of the trance in amazement. There are alot of really great pictures here. So I ordered it! thanks.

jerr3d posted Fri, 11 October 2002 at 8:27 PM

Thanks for your responses to my question. Vue session one was kinda frustrating cause I got the Pz3 file to import but the textures did not follow. Then I tried TheWingedOnes's above mentioned trick and during session 2 got the textures as well! Did have one Vue crash though, fortunately I had just saved. And Mac OS X was unaffected. So I was back into Vue in no time. The render was a straight import, textures and transparencys just dropped right in. Amazing!