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no you don't ;-)

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but that scene (very nice) could have easily been done in Bryce too......

yep, they're all just tools, Carrara, LW, Bryce, you name it. What's great is the image and the idea and the artist behind it all.

In the old days, did people oooh and ahhh at the almighty stick of chalk, or brush of oil paint, or  pencil? No, it's the artist. Same in digital, doesn't have any bearing at all whatsoever whether you used this or that tool, or further 'hopped it thereafter.... at least it shouldn't. IMHO

 
Maybe you're just in the wrong forum then, because this is the Bryce forum... The Vue forum is two doors down.