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Its also not really very practical to say, "hey, im doing a picture, its nothign like this one, but I want good atmospheric settings."

you asked "but when you look at this picture does anyone identify this as realisitic picture? Why not? "

We answered.

I don't  asked for a screenshot of the setup, my question was a general.

This picture (correct link here now) has a complete different and realistic look as i seen from VUE. All VUE-Tutorials on the web don't show such realistic pictures as result. You are also not able to get this results with post like photoshop, etc. The blur is because it is a screenshot from a movie sequence with active blur.

So i believe this quality is not possible with "normal VUE" or with "normal" Trees. I also believe this spotlight pictures from e-on are rendered in VUE xStream with mental ray oder RenderMan and NOT with the internal VUE-Render.