Kerkythea is also as slow as hell and it's instancing is still way behind vue's. You can't even variate the color tone per tree for example. It's a good renderer overall but it's just behind in certain areas. It's got a long ways to go.

The one aspect to vue i'd like to see more often that will bring it up to terragen 2 is attention to details when upclose to the ground using only procedurals, both layered color and fractals. I don't see this at all anywhere. It seems that no one wants to use the graph editor at all but i want those nice fine fractal sub-pixel details that those TGers are turning out. We need in depth tutorials based on the fractal terrains and the graph editor, i mean real deep stuff. Lets get those vue renders highly detailed when up close to the ground with differances in soil content, tiny pebbles, sediment, strata and so on.

I just hope that vue's displacement is faster this time around because using bumping just does not cut it anymore. It just looks to fake.