Personally I think all three Poser engines work fine for what they do, better than most if you rendering characters not environments. Poser gives skin tones a better quality render then most other programs. But after the skin tones the program fall far short. Bryce and Vue are environment programs that import Poser. Bryce does a better job of making sky, water, mountains once you learn the strange controls. Vue on the other hand has a better lay out of it functions and will import Poser animation. Another program to look at would be Carrara for it too will import Poser figures and animation. Dale