If E-on added modeling capabilities to Vue the price would probably be on pair with 3D Studio .

In general, I prefer to have several specialized tools, each doing ONE thing WELL and a clear workflow to put things together so I am fully with ArtPearl (we use the same toolset). As another example, should I outgrow Hexagon polygonal modeling capabilities, I would not ask for NURBS or organic modeling in Hex, but buy MoI and 3DCoat.

W.r.t. to being able to stretch tools... well, nobody prevents you to create OBJ files with Notepad, it just somewhat "inefficient". In the POV-Ray world, you model using tools which are just above the level of what I have just written: the snag is the development time (once upon a time there was a thing called Internet Ray Tracing Competion, which was mainly followed by POV people and the 2 month round time was barely sufficient for one image).

Bye!!!

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2