ok... at the risk of being flash fried.... The Vue hot 20 looks damn good if you ask me. Some really good landscape pics in there - have to keep an eye on that place in the future. Poser hot 20 is mainly what I call, rightly or wrongly (I'm an engineer, not an artist), character studies - but then thats not surprising as thats what the program is specifically designed to do. Most of the images have a fair bit of postwork done to them, but thats the result of the poser renderer not being too great and it being really hard to model good clothes and hair - all those strands and folds are hell on polys. I have poser, but can't make it "sing" like some in there can. Bryce Hot 20 seems to span the greatest (at this snapshot in time) range of different subjects. Surprisingly few landscapes, considering thats what it was originally meant to make. Those are the things that strike me. NB... if this thread moves again I'm going to nail it to the spot with a stake.

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