With Vue I can fly…

No 3-D Application can do everything. Some specialize in figures, others in sculpting. Some excel at producing realistic surfaces others at creating scenery. At a price of $229 US, Vue Esprit is one of the best programs for creating environments, does an excellent job of producing realistic surfaces and it integrates well with Poser, the primary figure creation software in the 3-D marketplace. Higher end versions can cost upwards of $895 US or more. For anyone starting out in 3-D, this is the ideal application to get.

Key Features of Vue Esprit.

1. Support for Poser figures including the use of the Poser Shader Tree. There is no need to import figures as Wavefront Objects then re-apply textures for multiple figures.
2. Support for Ambient Occlusion, Translucency, and Sub-Surface Scattering. All these lighting features add realism to a scene. For advanced Poser users these features are similar in function to Poser’s Material Room.
3. Crash recovery. If Vue suspects that it might crash, it will warn you ahead of time and attempt to save your work. This is a vast improvement over other programs that just crash and tell you nothing.
4. Realistic environments including plants, trees, grasses, mountains and water

What’s Missing from Vue Esprit?

Support for Python scripting. This would make using this program even easier. There are some plugins for Vue that will simply not work with the low-end version of the program because it lacks Python support. You get what you pay for. More money = More features. Python Scripting comes with the higher versions of Vue. On the bright side e-on software makes it easy to upgrade their software from lower versions for a fee. For example, Vue Esprit can be upgraded to Vue Pro Studio for an additional $199 US and Vue Pro Studio can be upgraded to Vue Infinite for $399. This way instead of speading $895 US at the start you could purchase parts of the program in installments, gaining functionality with each upgrade.