It all depends on what works best for the kinds of things you want to do. Vue does indeed make very nice renders (I'll fess up too and admit I'm still on version 4). You may have issues when importing to Vue but that's pretty much any outside program that you may use. There's always a chance of something going wonky when importing between one program and another. Some people like to stay in one program where they feel most comfortable. I used to import posed Poser scenes/people into Vue 4 and I still would if there were support for Poser 6 or 7 (which there isn't). Only Poser 4 (which won't even run on my machine, probably because of Vista).

I guess the point I'm trying to get across is, what do ya wanna do? Get the tools that best help you achieve what you want. There's no right or wrong about it. Get what you think you can afford.

Laurie