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I have both Vue D'Esprit and Vue 4 Pro - recently 'sidegraded' I find that realism is easier to achieve with Vue but the trees aren't that good for closeups due to their make up. Their materials editor (IMO) is superior to Bryce as you can mix materials, for want of a better expression, in layers and each layer can have different transparency, diffuse, ambience etc. Their terrain editor isn't so good though I use both Bryce and Vue equally depending on what I want to do :-) Most of my renders done in any programme look fuzzy because I make them that way - I nearly always use a combination of Mistifier and Porcelain (Xero) and Melancholytron (Flaming Pear) as postwork However, the Vue Pro version is very prone to constant freezing up and crashing which needs to be sorted out. I started a mega disucssion on this topic in the Vue forum and it's not resolved. Link at top of this post

Gill