Jot, it depends on what you are trying to do. I went to look at your gallery to see what types of images you are interested in making, but didn't find anything there. So hard to say. I have both Vue 4 (updated to Vue 4.12) and now Vue 4 Pro. I have used Vue 4 for about 2 years, and felt ready to tackle something a bit more sophisticated. If you just want to do stills, with Poser import, and you are not really interested in doing a lot of vegetation editing and complex animation, then I would buy Vue 4. I will say, from completely unbiased opinion, that I still am not sure that Vue Pro is worth extra price, but I've only been using it a couple of days. A lot of the differences have to do with save and export functions to other apps, and G buffer stuff for compositing animations. I am quite happy with Vue 4 (4.12), and will keep it on my computer and continue to use it. I think there are issues already with Vue Pro...scratched CDs (very poor packaging), manual could have more specific install information, still get freezes and crashes, some things not working correctly. So expect a patch soon. All I can say is weigh the pros and cons.

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