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Sasha: I'm both a LightWave-7.5c(LW) user and a registered Vue (4.12) user. I have the same questions about importing Vue terrains and procedural textures. Some LW plugins can operate within the LW rendering engine (Sasquach, Combustion, etc.) I'm wondering if VP is doing this as well, or, as you suggested, VP is converting the Vue procedural textures to images (.bmp, .tif, or whatever). As you said, if they are converting to image maps, that would greatly reduce VP's acceptance by most of the LW crowd. If "VP-to-LW" retains Vue's procedural texturing, VP should be a big hit amongst the LW crowd. If not, I, and many others, will not buy it. While I obviously can't speak for "ALL" LW users, I can say that most of them would prefer to work within their chosen app, be it LightWave, Max, Maya, or whatever. If Vue forces users to do some things in VP (outside their chosen app) many users will not accept this. What I'd like to see, is some examples of Vue scenes rendered in LightWave. Or at least have a demo available to see how VP works in LW. I don't know of any LW user that's willing to buy a program or plugin that they can't test, or at least "see" how it will work. Remember, we're talking about what amounts to a "terrain generating / texturing import" accessory to these high-end programs. I have little wish to setup and render a scene in Vue, only to have to composite it in AE, if I can do everything natively in LW. No matter how good the hype, camera, light, and motion matching is seldom a perfect match. I've experienced this with both "World Builder Pro" and "World Construction Set". There always seems to be a slight mismatch. Any time that a job can be done in a single app, time and energy is usually saved. The $299.00 or $599.00 price range is not a problem. Many LW plugins cost more than that. I, for one, would rather wait for a demo and pay full price, than buy early and get an app that may not do what I want. As tempting as VP looks, I won't spend anything until I can "see" some VP-to LW results. I think that lots of other users are similarly inclined. And to whomever asked about rendering times, the high-end apps (usually) render many times faster than Vue (or Bryce, or Poser) for the same basic scene. Another reason why most users would prefer to work in their high-end app. Just my take on it Knuckle (Knuck) Martin