Quote - Several factors I haven't seen covered... Vue and Bryce have a great reputation for creating landscapes. That's great, that's their focus. However, are you primarily going to be doing outside scenes - or - are you going to be doing room interiors, city streets, spacecraft scenes or the interior of temples? The other packages are probably going to be better - especially if you want to create your own starship bridge or Temple. Are you wanting to import Poser animations into your scenes? if so, Lightwave is the one on the list that can't do it easily. You can import still figures, rig and animate them in Lightwave (using 3rd party plugins), but you can't import the fully animated scenes. I'm still using Poser Pro pack and Lightwave 6.5 because that was the last generation of the two that played well together.

Bobasaur... Mister... now cut that out. You're spreading false information and you should hang your head in shame. Propack works perfectly well with Lightwave 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5 and yup;.. you guessed it 9.0. I just started using it with the 32 bit version of LW a couple of weeks ago.  I'll post a screen grab to make you a believer if need be. Now, you're one of those Mac types so...

I personally enjoy Lightwave because it is robust enough to allow you to grow as far as you wish to explore, is well documented and supported, has one of the largest 3rd party communities on the planet, and (in my view at least) is the most intelligently laid out and friendliest application available. No foolish icons to memorize, all the lighting options in the 3D world, mega-quick renderer, (1st class), etc, etc, etc. And there is a plugin which allows you to use Vue Infinite directly from within it. (Xstream). I use it and have to say  that the LW9/Vue combo rocks hard.

Remember Bobasaur.... I'm watching you.....