I agree with Sharen, Vue 4 is a great program. But I'm sooo much happier with Vue Pro!! Of course, the plant editor!! For the moment I'm just playing around creating completely new plants. They can be saved to show up in the existing Vue pants folder and every time you select it (I mean the completely new one) it will react as the already existing Vue plants, 2 of the same species never looks the same. Even not when created by yourself :-). Another great feature is Post processing. You don't need any other application to change hue, brightness, saturation.... You can do it directly in Vue. A great feature inside this feature is also that you can render a spherical image. When saved, you may apply it to a sphere and it looks as it should look:-) And the wind. You also need wind for still images, not only for animations. Give life to your trees, grass and flowers in giving them some movement in the wind. I also like especiallly the automatic "make seamless" for reflection maps. And, and and...so many other new features! I could speak for hours aboutVue Pro. But I don't have the time to do so. The book with over 400 pages is greatly done and every thing is explained in detail. I have no high end application and I cannot speak about how Vue reacts in Max or Lightwave, but the full scene export is a great thing. Vue Pro will not export a scene when an imported Pz3 figure is included (but you always can : import your Poser figure as an OBJ file, then it will export with the scene. Otherwise import your Poser figure separately in your high end app, some third party objects are forbidden for export too (except OBJ format). You can create your own objects and forbid the export from Vue. Import works great for all formats supported by Vue Pro. OpenGL is supported, but some graphic cards needs to be updated to work with Vue. There is a test option in Vue to know if your card works or (maybe, but not for sure) not. Most of recent cards are working fine. Personally, I have not encountered ANY technical problem until now. I had not one crash since I use Vue Pro final version (5 days, many hours). If you have specific questions, we will try to answer. But don't forget we are all new to Vue Pro:-). Guitta