I started in 2d with PSP7(I am a late starter with all this)...Got the plugin KPT Scenebuilder which was 3d more or less & said wow, I need a program that does this for everything. From there, I moved on to Vue4 & PPP. In between I tried several others Terregen(never clicked with me), Bryce5(hated the interface), Mojoworld2(couldn't even grasp - too much math). I do have Shade7 Standard & slowly and I do mean slowly am attempting to learn that. So far I like that.