There are some elitists over there, but as far as i know it, most people dont mind Bryce or Vue at all. If its good work and your own, they have no problems with it. As for the Uber-judges (Syd Meed etc), they usually choose the images for Exposas well, and if i can get in with Bryce, so could anyone else. They look at the work, not the app. But now when im reading his comment, it seems to me that he doesnt fully understand what the hell hes talking about. Mind you, that most of these guys dont know crap about Bryce or the terrain editor. When you say create a terrain in Bryce (making one of your own, that is), he probably thinks that the software creates one for you automatically. "If it's just a height field that you use to apply to a plane as displacement or whatever, then fine." Thats exactly how the terrain editor works. :)

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
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