And vice versa.....looking inside of Chipps TerraPak materials, I learned about the slope node which I couldn't get clicked in my head and fractal mixing and I never knew you could change your mats to vibrant colors when mixing. The obvious isn't always so. InteriorPak solves the mysteries of interior lighting and TerrPak, material mixing.

Many of us make our own stuff for our own use as well. It's in the areas where one has little or no skill that you compensate with a fellow artist's creations. For skies, which I'm no good at, I favor Filippe, Bruno, Deadhead and Trepz. (I have to get out of the habit of just using Vue's default). For water and seasonal collections, I collect GillB and some Martin Frost. For vegetation, I collect Linda's Lush and Wabe's avant gaurde plants and, through Poser, Runtime DNA. For models...anything I can get my hand on because I suck at it. For addons and Vue tools, there's Chipp's VueTools, InteriorPak and AltTerrain and of course, DBurdick's fab SkinVue.

If one has the time and inclination, it's always prudent to study and learn the tools to make your own stuff, but time can be a rare commodity. That's why I think Vue content creators try to fill the missing parts of Vue and extend the parts already there.

So if you want to make your own stuff, I applaud you. If you think it's good, then pack it up and throw it out there on the market. Nothing to lose, play money to gain, and the more the merrier!

Didn't mean to be long winded here but, in short, I think content creation can be an art in itself.