Thank y'all for the thoughtful inputs.   After checking out the beautiful images of arcady, martian_manhunter and others in the Vue and Carrara galleries, I think I'm going for what**  XENOPHONZ** and  ptrope suggest -- Vue to be my choice.

The postings in the Vue gallery show a greater variety, with plenty of support info.   Some Vue masters also shows how one can achieve using booleans to built architectures in Vue.

One great example is here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=46518

In addition to its much larger support base, Vue Infinite is even used to produce SFX for studio movies like Pirates of the Caribbean.   I know that to get to those levels, it requires lots of hard work and learning, but it's something that I can get inspired to.

Also, DominiqueB, I imagine when LightWave had the Vue5infinite in the bundle, it was priced much higher than the current price $795.    Or was it really this affortable already then?

Thank you all again for the time and inputs!

3DVim

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