Yes Bryce is very slow in rendering. Better in 5.5 by their claims and my tests so far (first thing I did when I got it was open a bryce 5.0 scene I made a few years back that took several hours and rendered it in 20 minutes...).

Vue 6 is the future - so I'm speaking of Vue 5. What Vue 6 will actually be able to do as opposed to what they claim might not be the same.

For example, Carrara, which fails for me on most of its claims. My poses get dropped, I will have things like hand held props such as a gun or spear not import, or import but moved several hundred units away, I will get clothing that fails to conform but claims it is conformed, and so on...

Carrara Render quality is what I compared to Bryce. Outside of light effects they are similar. I of course, use  light effects a -LOT- which is why I prefer Vue over Carrara - Carrara will fail to render any light effect that has anything between it and the camera, and will fail to change light colors when they travel through transparancies. Vue works on both of these, but lacks the volumetric clouds of Carrara that I have used in past to create glowing smogs in pits and below walkways.

I did figure out how to simulate a similar result in Vue, but it was not as easy.

Compare my 'Elf Match' and 'Space Vixens' images for example. Elf Match is Vue, and I was trying to do in that what I did in Space Vixens with Carrara...

All of the figures in Space Vixens by the way, had to be imported from obj exports, because they are examples of figures that deformed or lost objects on import.

Both are in my gallery, and happen to be images with nudity so I won't thumbnail them here.

Elf Match: http://excalibur.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1272684
Space Vixens: http://excalibur.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1171613&member

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