CE for Vue works only with version 8.5 or Vue 9.

This special version exports selected building "models" as Vue *.vob  objects. The resulting objects are fairly low-resolution buildings suitable for background use. Most of the apparent detail really consists of facades that started as texture files and are simply applied to the rough building shapes.

The great thing about City Engine is that whole city blocks or neighborhoods can be generated fairly accurately from real street data, or made-up (drawn) street and topo data.

City Engine IS cool, and as Alexcoppo says, it has a fairly decent learning curve. Not at all point-and-click. More on the nature of the Vue Material Editor Advanced - in terms of compexity of use. Anyone can go download the trial version for free, and take a look at the tutorials. The purchased product interface opening sequence includes plenty of links to tutorials. And for what it does, its is as good a product as exists.

You also will need to be a reasonable hand at creating or editing building facade texture files in something like CorelDraw or Photoshop to make good use of this product.

If you're not into procedural programming/editing, don't worry about it. Some of us have been following the developments of City Engine for the last couple of years, and have purchased it. We'll be making products from City Engine that can be used in Vue - as regular city blocks or neighborhoods - for background use.

I was not happy with the regular version as small defects creep into the *.obj model files that it generates. However, I purchased this special Vue version in the wee hours of this morning, and I've not yet found a flaw in the exported *.vobs. Plus, I can tell you that Procedural.com's technical support is snappy and right on top of things. I made a mistake in installation that I could not recover from myself, even though I'm a techie. They had my installation fixed and up and running sweetly within two hours.