Hi Zerelli, I'm about to take the plunge too (Vue 4). I'm using 3.1 at the moment and finding it pretty easy to use apart from terrain creation and animation. The terrain creation only works in 2D whereas Vue 4 has a 3D interface. The animation in 3.1 kept crashing the software but the Vue 4 demo I got seems stable. As for free stuff, I would check out www.3dcafe.com. It has hundreds of models and textures for free. Cheers, Kevin