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In all honesty, I'm not sure why the ability of software to emulate a photograph/camera is so important?

Actually, it is very important when making independent films. You can’t always shoot on location but if you can make a moving shot in Vue or Terragen that establishes that you are arriving at a certain location and then cut to an indoor shot, everyone believes that the indoor action is now taking place at that location. It is a lot cheaper to render Arizona then to go to Arizona. ;-)

I agree the realism in those Terragen 2 shots is pretty amazing. If anyone thinks Vue can do that I’d love to see a tutorial on how. I just started using Vue and have a lot to learn.

~jr