When I came to Vue, I had the same reaction as Andrewe : it did not work as I expected it to ! I compared Vue with a skateboard powered by a Maserati engine : no good for pulling my truck to next town, and i got angry about "wasted" time. There was one real bug which hindered me to do what I wanted. I found a work-around, did my work, e-on cleaned the bug. But, for my "wasted time & money" opinion, I was wrong as wrong could be, and voluntarily admit my error. Vue is not a pocket calculator where one hits the equals key. The Vue interface, simple at first glance, may lead to mistake it for such :-) Vue seems more like a formula1 engine, with dozens of adjustments to tune, depending on WHAT I want it to do. I got no team to do that in my place - but got the manual, tutorials, and friends on forums to ask, and learn to tune and drive the beast. To continue the comparison, I can use it for skateboard, railway engine, airplane, racing car, or as a truck. Required settings are not the same... Most of the adjustment inputs are not limited (one may want to try unusual things), so there are many ways to have it hickup. Driving it aint button-pushing, neither : once I got the engine tuned, I could run straight into the next wall, or stall on fire-up. If things don't work one way 'round, I'll do it the other way, and it works. A Poseruser will use differents ways than the architect, the cinema animator or the moods artist. At the beginning, I had to tune down to simple settings and do simple things, then work up from there. My pocket calculator approach simply was no good. Using Vue for a year or so, I know, let's say, about one fifth of it's possibilities, and discover others all time. If e-on put in fail-safe mecanisms, so that Vue worked like a cd-player, it would lose many of it's phantastic possibilities. Vue is not a bad product - look at the gallery, what people do with it - and, many payjob renderings simply are not displayed here in the gallery, for copyright reasons and such. There are some bugs, yes. In most cases, somebody got a work-around. More often, hickups are not hard bugs, but due to something untuned somewhere, or feeding Vue the wrong way . If one explains what happened, others can try to find out, why it happened. Keep on, it's worth ! :-)