I understand what you mean: Vue does have a "painterly" feel to it. I've used Bryce and have just bought Carrara both of which can produce quite stark, photo-like images.

One of Vue's strengths is the ability to create realistic haze, fog, clouds and muted sunlight just like in the real world.

Most Vue users produce landscapes which, due their very nature, are comprised predominantly of greens, greys and browns. OK so it's an over simplification of the glorious creation around us, but you get the idea:-)

Please also remember that all images posted to the gallery are crunched down from their original large file size. Something is always lost in that conversion process, usually the vegetation detail, which contributes to "flattening" the image.

However, Vue most definitely is more than capable of producing bright colours.

As to your dare, the last two works I've posted were partly experiments with vivid colouring in Vue. (I like things bright!) There are plenty of other examples in the Vue galleries. If you say what kind of image you want to see, I'm sure someone here will rise to the "mini-challenge" and post something from Vue matching your spec.

Finally, have you checked your monitor? It wasn't until I bought a good LCD screen that I realised what my old Sony CRT hadn't been showing me!

Cheers,
Mark