Bryce 5 has trees Bryce does many things vastly better then vue. Bryce is stable Vue is not Bryce rendering engine is more accurate and more powerfull Bryce has more support through out the community 100 times the users 1000 times the tutorials. Bryce has more free content Trees for 5, materials , skies Bryce anti aliasing is far superior to Vue Bryce can use photoshop plugins to make and manipulate textures Bryce can do abstract images as well as still life and nature Bryce 5 has a fully customizeable render, you can tweak each part of it to your hearts content Bryce 5 has multiple undo Bryce is harder ,and slower (because of quality) It truely depends on you look at the Vue galleries and look at the Bryce galleries here and elsewhere on the net. See for yourself what there is to like and dislike about each. check out bryce select gallery elsewhere on the net for some other pictures. Check out E-on's gallery. You will see the major differance in the galleries. (poser figures, and the ability to do many different styles of art) Download the demos