Bryce has a better rendering engine it might not be updated like Vue but If I had a choice for doing just landscapes as old and out dated Bryce is, the renderings are better. period. Now do I use Bryce or Vue? Vue; because I work with Poser. The ability to setup figures in Poser than place them in a Vue seen is almost unbeatable. Vue alone is not worth the price. The first problem with Vue is what I would call water pixaltion. Never quite rendering completely a water plain in the far distance. Second is Atmospheres changing the over all color of the materials, Bryce does the same thing but not as bad. If you want to do animation and have 12 computers with over 12ghz processing power with Mimic, Poser and Vue you can get it done. Dale