Vue Pioneer for Mac

User Reviews

• Excellent program!

  CLSmeedJanuary 1, 2011

  Pros

  Beautiful, professional-looking renditions. Good tech support.

  Cons

  A bit of a learning curve, but well worth learning.

  Summary

  You need a fair amount of patience to learn this program, but the results are professional-looking renditions. It does get easier as you work with it. I like the feebies offered by the developer and have amassed quite a collection of free and inexpensive additions to my graphics library. They have an amazing graphics store with objects easy to build on and around. Developer is pretty helpful and responds quickly.

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• If only I was RICH...

  DragonWizardAugust 18, 2009

  Pros

  It has a nice render engine and for Imported poser stuff it works great..

  Cons

  If I was rich I could probably make some nice work with this, problem is it cost a fortune for a bunch of overpriced stuf that makes most POSER users PUKE.. why does everyone who makes files for this think their stuff is made of GOLD..

  Summary

  I got the Pioneer version as it is free (after having to go through HELL trying to register it) but I am afraid that is as far as I am willing to go. That's the problem with module style programs. They make the main program so it is PUNY unless you buy a bunch of stuff from them to use it.. ALSO.. everytime you upgrade you will have to upgrade your modules as well and it also is not free.. They SQUEEZE every drop of money they can out of this baby and you can't even get any support from the makers. You have to go to a forum site even to complain as they accept NO emails from anyone for any reason at the producers site. I MEAN NO EMAILS AT ALL.. Just try the site and you will get an idea how little support you will get.. Even the website runs you in circles till you want to pull your hair out so you can imagine how bad the support is... if anyone says diofferent then try the website yourself.. you WILL regret it!!!

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• Limitations make it useless

  Peet42April 25, 2009

  Pros

  It's a sound 3D package, with lots of content available. (At a price); good support forums.

  Cons

  Output has a logo superimposed. On Mac limited to two cpu cores. File selectors prefilled with paid content and the only way to remove this is first to pay £50 for the software (inc postage) and <em>then</em> pay another £90 for an "import filter".

  Summary

  If you want to do anything remotely "serious", forget it. The "T-Packs" upgrade for £30ish+p&P (actually works out at £50ish) looks like good value, but it takes every opportunity to push paid content in your face. Every file selector is teeming with things that will demand money if you click on them and the button to suppress this, mentioned in the manual, is only enabled if you spend the best part of £90 on an "import filter". When you do download the content you have paid for it seems to go out of its way to hide it. Most un-intuitive. (I downloaded this on a PC, found the logo restrictive and bought the Sci-Fi "T-Pack" for the Mac. All comments on pricing and restrictions are based on the Mac version, but there doesn't seem to be a difference according to the forums.)

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• Very nice program!

  CLSmeedApril 6, 2009

  Pros

  Renderings are beautiful and professional-looking for a sized-down program.

  Cons

  The learning curve is a little steep for me. I'll have to spend some serious time on learning it. I'm an advanced computer user, but fairly new to graphics and rendering.

  Summary

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• great perform with easy and simple clicks

  teu2511April 2, 2009

  Pros

  I like Gizmo of scale and location. Boolean operation was confident. Rendering options are helpful, but I wonder multi-CPUs being used.

  Cons

  Lack of import contours of the map to make real site terrane. It was hard to export VUE trees to the BIM apps. I need other translation tools.

  Summary

  I expect the marriage of Vue and Artlantis, at least engagement.

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