My review for E-On Software Vue 8 has been posted on Digital Arts
The eighth version of E-on’s 3D landscape creation software offers the ability to create more terrains and more realistic clouds and skies. I rated it 4 out of 5
The Pros included an enhanced terrain editor with 3D sculpting, zones and brush effects, some display enhancements, the inclusion of Spectral 3 clouds and separate displacement channel.
However xStream was found to be unstable with Softimage 2010, Poser 8 import wasn’t great and there were some EcoSystem limitations with xStream in Maya.


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