For me the most useful features are : - Materials explorer (being able to view all materials as a tree just like the World explorer) - Advanced lights (apply lights to selected objects only, change a linear light into a quadratic light, render shadow only) - Replace objects (turn an existing cube into a sphere of the same dimensions, in the same location) - Unlimited number of layers in the scene (you can decide to add new layers or not) - Render to screen of pictures larger than the screen resolution (no need to render to disk if you don't want to). Now this is not all pink and nice :) There are two major issues that you should know about : - alpha planes and transparent materials render as white materials in a volumetric light (this is almost fixed - the new beta is supposed to handle that but I did not have a chance to try) - difficult or impossible to import old objects and textures from Vue 3 and lower. I had to give up some older materials and objects. By the way, I ditched Vue 4 and replaced it completely with Vue Pro now :)

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