Bruno,
I can (just about, lol) afford art proggies by looking for when they have special offers/sale etc, saved me a assload of cash over the years.
at first I was pretty damn PO'd about the whole maintenance plan until it was explained better and V8 thrown in with it...that was good savings :)

though I do wish Vues price did drop siginficantly...it doens't help newcomers, or moi, seeing those whacking great prices for Complete/infinite/Xstream, even with Pioneer etc.
and most folk in this genre start as hobbyists, not as stuioi pros!

anywya, terrain editor's needed a hugr kick in the pants for a long time, so that's to look forward too ! :)
odd but I''ve been working through materials, lighting, rendering now onto terrains as major learning areas :P my terrain skillzors sucketh!
maybe buy the QuadSpinner tuts on that, as their lighting one was DAMN good

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