Professional Solution - Annual License

I have been using both software a lot recently and have been satisfied with the results more than ever as I discover
all of their capabilities.

I used to be a great fan of Vue a few years ago.
Since I do this type of things as a hobby, I regularly skipped one or two updates.
With the subscription scheme, it's way too costly for what I'm doing with it.
I know it's a standard now to impose subscriptions for software : that's probably the best way to make people use open source !
By the way, where I live internet is shaky, so the licensing system is a real annoyance.


[e-on - June 2022] Hello and thanks for your feedback. We understand your point with regards to interoperability features being only in Professional and Enterprise solutions, esp when it comes to using our tools as a hobby.
Keep an eye on our blog and various communication channels, for a major announcement early this summer (2022).
On a final note, annual licenses only require an internet connection for the first activation request. Once activated the software can be run offline for a full year. Best

It would be great if we could get back the seamless workflow from previous versions of the max plugin.

[e-on] Hello Dustin, thanks for the review. We're unsure as to what you refer to with the plugins, as we haven't removed any, and the plugins for 34ds Max, Maya, C4D and LightWave are still available in the Professional and Enterprise solutions. If you are unable to have them installed, please contact our tech support center, they will happily help you out.
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I use it since it was launched. A very powerful tool

I'm still unsure how extended licensing works. (My current subscription is still good for another 262 days.)

It is not a new product for me as I have been creating computer-generated image

I use VUE in 2 scenarios:
To prepare space ship models and to export them to my WebGL framework for realtime rendering of space scenes (almost all related to Star Trek fan productions).
And to create landscape scenes of fictional places or alien world scenes. I love to play with different atmospheres in VUE without changing the scene.

Fabulous software maybe just a bit expensive

I have been using this software for years because I know it's good, but I cannot give it 5 stars like I might have in the past because I really don't like the interface design one bit - the icons for al the tools are just light grey outlines. I know that this minimal design style is kind of 'in' right now, but honest to god I just hate it, it makes it so hard to actually recognize the tools at a glance any more and it just looks so ugly and 'industrial', not creative at all. I'm sorry, but really i think this is a really bad way to go.