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I am just testing Vue and I am very pleased with its terrain editor and rendering qualityIt seems very promising, but unfortunately there is no demo for Pro version
I have to test it for exporting too, so I will have to look for cracked version to test it , althought I hate warez
and even don
One thing I forgot: Have you tested Vue d'Esprit?
It goes in the same direction as Bryce but seems to be a lot better (from what I have heard, I didn't test it myself). You can dl a demo (with limited functionality) on their Homepage ( www.e-onsoftware.com ). And it's not very expensive (the normal version for 209$, the Pro costs 599$ ... but if your Publisher was willing to buy you 3ds Max that shouldn't be a problem
In the Pro Version you can Export created Plants and stuff ... looks very promising (at least in their advertisments)
It seems very promising, but unfortunately there is no demo for Pro version I have to test it for exporting too, so I will have to look for cracked version to test it , althought I hate warez and even don
I'm still a beginner, but I reached the point where Bryce was too limiting due to lack of basic features needed in 3d-Software.
You can do absolutely cool, good looking landscapes, with mountains, water, nice looking sky and so on in a few minutes ... but sadly, that is all you can do with it.
With freeware applications is problem that pros wonThat's interesting. Most users never tried them too much and decided for Blender because of its "price" (at least I thought so). Maybe I still have a wrong picture of it.
I can understand beginers that they are rather confused when they run Blender first time. But honestly-how manny begginers can open MAX or Maya and start modeling, animating and do all stuff? There are even more buttons than in Blender, in much cases there are even not buttons but only confusing icons.
Yes, but I think they could get it somewhat more user-friendly, especially for beginners. When I first opened Blender I was so overwhelmed by thousands of buttons (well, at least it looked like thousands
But you are right, after a time (and enough patience) you learn it and won't miss it ... the only thing that is REALLY annoying is that I often try to use the Right-Mouse-Button in several other Applications and wonder why nothing happens
Well, I have a hundred of finished models on my harddisc ... Blender is strong in modeling, but I'm strong in being lazyEh, yes you are right, sorry, this did not came to my mind
Wow, we have a REAL star around us
I looked at the screenshots on your site, and I think now it's time for me to go crying again
Do you use the Blender-Renderer or do you export to Povray or so?
I saw some projects begun with the old Gameengine of Blender, but in my opinion Adventures are still better in 2d instead of realtime-3d.
3d is cool for Action and Racing Games, but in Adventures I miss too much atmosphere.
You can't create a game with it because it's not an engine. But you can create the graphics for it. :-) It's in the same category as 3D Studio for example. It's a very good choice for people that can't afford 3D Studio, Lightwave etc
btw - you can create games with Blender, because it has a built-in-3d-engine, it's disabled in the actual versions, but up to 2.25 it's accessible, and as far as I know it shall return somewhere between 2.3x and 2.5
But I think it can't compete with actual 3d-Engines, even with low-cost-ones like 3d Gamestudio.
