When faced with the choice myself, buy vue or bryce, I chose vue 4 because of the mover plugin. See, I use poser for animation, so being able to import animated figures into vue is a very big feature to me. I've worked with bryce, and I know that importing poser figures into bryce is no picnic either, and you can forget about animated figures... after getting used to the differences in the interfaces, I found that vue can do just about everything bryce can do, and where I couldn't make any sense at all out of the deep texture editor, I've found that vue's texture editor is very intuitive. (rather similar to the old Ray Dream Studio materials). Bottom line: Where bryce is definitely a unique software experience (due in part to Kai Krause's wonderful interface), and of course, bryce was there when there was nothing else (no vue, worldbuilder, mojoworld, etc) It would seem that it's at an evolutionary dead end. Vue on the other hand , seems to be just hitting it's stride, I've a good feeling that the next few revolutions are going to bring great things. And e-on appears to know that bryce is in limbo, they've say that vue will open a bryce scene with no problems or prep work. I haven't tried it myself, but if bryce truly is only $80.00, I'm sure I'll be trying it soon....