Also, the profiles that Vue has are easier to understand. Most ppl understand what a profile will do from a 2D program. And they're also very powerful and can fundamentally change the way a function looks and how it behaves when mixed with something else. I used to love goofing around in Vue's material settings. It was fun. Poser's material room makes me cry....lol.

Oh, and yes, Blender's nodes normally have only a few familiar settings that you need to tweak and IIRC, you can combine a bunch of nodes. Or at least I thought I saw someone doing that in a vid...lol. The problem with Blender's nodes isn't that it's vague what they do, but that there are SO flipping many of them....lol.

Laurie