Hey UVDan!! nice seeing you bro :)

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well folk love things, from painting little soliders to racing dragsters and get VERY protective of what they care for ;)

And in general,
please note what they are adding in Vue8
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/about/event/NewsSiggraph2009.php#
go to
Vue 8 Infinite live presentation by Ami Chopine: Part 1
terrain editor FINALLY has clipping plane as a "Mask" like Brce lol! ;) but, most importantly
it's terrian editor is in true 3D, sort of liek Zbrush, so you can paint overhangs and caverns...
does a litel dance ;)
I've had to use mutiple terrains, booleans etc to get something like that in Bryce and Vue previously.

Max
only concerns with Vue are:
MAC's do have a lot more bugs than Windows PCs, alas.
And to REALLY get the best from it you need a 64 bit rig, the difference is night and day, opens the ceiling WAAAAY off what you can do! :) Hence Bryce must get a 64 bit version for version 7
the 32 bit version works fine, but with 64 bit and 4+ gig RAM, you can throw in so much damn stuff without all the hassles of compositing so you don't go over RAM limits like before in 32 bit.

anyway I do kind of odd scenes, not the usual, these were done in Vue 7.5 infinite :)
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1921767
the "rainbow" Phlogiston is a Volumetric material which would take a HUGE time ot render in Bryce
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1924468
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1930691
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1948084

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