Have to agree with Flak, I'd go for C4D over Vue, although vue has some nice features, thing is I own a few high end packages, yet Bryce always calls me back, no excuses, it just has it's own charm. I wish I could get some of the stuff from Bryce into C4D, Max or Maya, but there you go, mebbe in 6 it'll happen. But I've been a user of Bryce since version 2 and I think it'll always be a tool that is installed on my machine!

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.