Estherau, I am a Carrara user with an interest in Vue but don't own Vue , I just look in on the Vue forum every once in awhile. I am sure you will be happy with carrara . By the sounds of it you got the Carrara pro version , which does have the Transposer in it although I don't do much with poser figures . I can model almost anything I want in Carrara but the Pro version also comes with Amapi which is a more specialized modeler. So Carrara is definitely not lacking in the modeling. There is a toon renderer and Non photoreal renderer that comes with the carrara package , although the toon plugin is better. There isn't anything exactly like ecosystems although there is a plugin called Replica by Julien Chaplier which can be used to replicate trees etc which works very well. I played with this a while back and did some images using it a while back . I use Carrara to create my nature type scenes and the plant editor that comes with carrara is pretty good once you get your own textures on the trees. You can check out my gallery everything in it was done in Carrara . Cajomi's gallery in carrara shows some great terrain work