I purchased Vue4Pro to use in conjunction with Lightwave. We do architectural visualization and for what it should be able to do and for that VERY low price we had to give it a try. We've used Vue d'Esprit 4 and love the ease of use and were very pleased when a Pro version was announced. We've got World Builder Standard 3.0 and to upgrade that to something workable with Lightwave will cost quite a bit. We've also got World Construction Set 4.5 and had way too much trouble to get it to play nice with LW. So... most of our "stuff" was done natively in LW and we haven't used either of the higher-end programs listed above.

Unfortunately we haven't had much time to "play" around with Vue4Pro. What we've seen we've liked. It's still as intuitive as Vue d'Esprit 4. We did have a problem with the install (Step 6 tutorial) but all we had to do was go back and do a simple, no frills install. No problem. We've had problems with texture translation between the two programs - Steve Bell informed us that this is one of the things being worked on. Excellent! Hopefully the patch due soon will address most of the issues. I sincerely have high hopes for this newer version of Vue and am looking forward to a rock-solid piece of software in the months to come. And... I think that E-On will make sure that we get it. After all, they'll want us to upgrade to Vue5Pro!

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PS. For those who are waiting for all of the bugs to be gone before you buy... unless you're seriously strapped for cash, you might just want to take the plunge before the intro pricing fades away. Vue4Pro is not perfect right now, but just wait (and not too long) till it is! As Forester said above, Vue4Pro is the "most reasonably priced product of its kind in the marketplace." It seriously has the capability to outperform World Builder and World Construction Set - both are quite a bit higher in price!

PPS. I don't work for E-On... I just like their products! :)