Welcome to Vue!  I would say Frontier is good to start with, but without the 3D Import and RenderUp (both included with Esprit) modules is fairly limited.  The SciFi and Fantasy versions are even more limited.  You can get Frontier and then get just the content packs for SciFi and Fantasy and have a better program. 

The nice part about Vue is the modules can be bought one at a time.  It's more expensive then just buying the higher versions, but sometimes it's easier to go $100 or less at a time upward...

First thing to do though is to try the free Personal Learning Edition (PLE) or demo versions and make sure your computer can handle the software.  Nothing worse then investing in software to find out your hardware just can't deal with it. 

 

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