Vue d’Esprit 4 Featured in Steve Jobs Keynote Address at Apple Expo 2002

Vue d’Esprit 4 Featured in Steve Jobs Keynote Address at Apple Expo 2002: 3D developer e-on software, maker of the award winning, cross-platform Vue d’Esprit 4, Mover 4 and Ozone 2.0 received special recognition at Apple Expo 2002. Apple CEO Steve Jobs highlighted 3D applications in his Apple Expo 2002 keynote address, featuring e-on software’s award winning 3D scenery creator Vue d’Esprit 4, together with Maya 4.5 and Cinema 4D R8. Richard Kerris, Apple’s Director of Developer Technologies, demonstrated how convincing 3D scenery could be created using Vue d’Esprit "...in under a minute!" "This program creates environments that can be used for games, feature films, graphics design..." added Richard Kerris.

Starting with an empty screen, Richard Kerris demonstrated the ease with which he could create realistic vegetation, sculpt terrains in real-time using the terrain editor, add water and render a high quality picture. He then went on to displaying a QuickTime movie rendered with Vue 4 and concluded the keynote presentation by adding that: "...all this could be done with a program that costs less than 250€! ($200)".

Vue d’Esprit 4 for Mac OS X premiered at Macworld 2002 in San Francisco, where it received a Best of Show award. In July 2002, e-on software released Mover 4 and Ozone 2.0 at SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio, Texas. Mover 4, an expansion product for Vue 4, adds powerful network rendering that enables Vue 4 to render using all processors available on every Mac OS X enabled computer across a network, new animation effects, integration for direct import of Poser animations and several high
quality 3D models.

Vue 4 and Mover 4 are available in English, French, German and Japanese, with a USSRP of $199 and $99. Ozone 2.0 is available in English, with a retail price of $249.

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[Update 7:00 pm ET Sat.] Mozilla 1.2a Improved Nightly Build: From Dana Baggett, "The latest Mozilla v1.2a download seems to work well. Fast. The scroll bar bug is fixed. The only downside - we can't use any of the Themes other than Classic and Modern. (That may be a bug.)"

[Update 9:00 am ET Sat.] SimpleFTP 1.30 is Out and available for download. We use this shareware product every day. From the press release,

Product Description: SimpleFTP is a file transfer product, modeled on the RFC 959 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Internet standard, that emphasizes simplicity and ease of use.

SimpleFTP features include:
- Aqua® compliant interface.
- Multi-threaded -- you can have unlimited number of simultaneous connections to different servers.
- File transfer resume of uploads and downloads (if supported by the server).
- Seamless multi file and folder transfers, and deletion.
- Bookmarks for easy access to commonly used servers.
- Drag & Drop support. Transferring files is as easy as dragging a file or folder!
- Supports the most popular UNIX®, Microsoft Windows®, IBM OS/2® and Apple Macintosh® FTP servers.
- Supports long file names (Mac OS X limit of 256 characters) and Unicode support.

What's new in 1.3:
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar compatibility.
- Added new Redial option when unable to connect to destination server.
- New ability to sort files by Name, Date or Size, either in ascending or descending order.
- Ability to add a bookmark after being connected to the remote server.
- Display of the Date field is now consistent across different server types.
- Fixed a crash when aborting a transfer on a NT-style server.
- Fixed a bug in the contextual menus.
- Added better handling for timeout situations.
- Fixed a problem that caused degradation of the upload performance.