Vue and Bryce

I had been doing alot of on-line research over the years and there were two similar 3d software for landscape and other virtual environments available off the shelf: Daz3D's Bryce (a Corel product at one time) and e-onsoftware's Vue. There was a free version of Bryce available and the newer version at the time cost about $69. In contrast, Vue d'Esprit, was $179. The software Mover can be bundled with Vue to allow animation from Daz3d or Poser to be imported. Bryce didn't had that capability. Mover was an additional $109. There are many alternative 3d landscape software in the market but many were extremely pricey or didn't have the capabilities I needed like importing the standard 3d models formats I required.

The reason for needing these 3d software is to provide a virtual world for the still or animated characters. I didn't wanted to pay almost $300 for the software and I almost purchased Bryce. Another reason for me to not want to get Vue was its French connection. It is not clear who developed Vue since there is a Oregon headquarters and a Paris office. But the French sounding names of the e-onsoftware products led to to think that Vue was a foreign software. Nevertheless, I have negative opinions about French politics and how tourists get treated in France.

There were many examples of Vue work on the internet, far more than the Bryce examples. These Vue works looked superior to the Bryce rendered works in quality. This was another reason for choosing Vue. (Ironically, many of the Vue work that I like were done by French artists).

As fate would have it, the Poser package I purchased a few months prior had a $50 coupon for Vue which helped. The Vue product line can be found in www.e-onsoftware.com. Bryce can be found in www.daz3d.com.

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