Veritas...that's simply untrue. Sheesh. Making up things about the people who worked on Bryce doesn't make it so. Many of the programmers who worked on Bryce when it made its transition to Windows for Bryce 2 ALSO worked on Corel Bryce 5. And the Corel folks who worked on it were dedicated, sharp, and LOVED the program and were absolutely thrilled to be working with it. I've used Bryce for years, bought Vue 2 and put it away, bought Vue 4 and have been playing with it for a while. Vue has some very nice features, and is easy to use. The skies are wonderful. But I find it's a little rough around the edges. If you can't use OpenGL with it, it's very difficult to see what you're doing. I don't care for the move/rotate controls in the wireframe..they get in the way. If you're used to it, no problem. But I can't get used to it. Sigh. Also, Vue takes over your machine while rendering. That's a biggie for me. Bryce uses idle time for rendering and lets you minimize to the taskbar. But having object heirarchy is absolutely wonderful! And the terrain editor is cool with lots of stuff to do. Much nicer than Bryce's IMHO. The built-in vegetation is really nice, but there's not enough of it. But the trees look much nicer than Treelab trees in the background (not close up though). With both Bryce and Vue you need to augment your vegetation with other stuff. Being able to import pz3 is killer! It's a snap. The only way to know for sure if you'll like it, though, is to try the demo.