I have and like Bryce4. (I do like the gooey interface for landscapes, but prefer numerical constraints for ANYTHING which must be precise.) Since I've been a MetaCreations suite user since their early days (about 3 names ago), there wasn't much of a learning curve between these programs. I was tempted to go to 5 for the new features, but will wait. I bought Vue4 at MacWorld simply because it does import Poser people directly (the show special was about $150). It also gives us variation in skies (as does Terragen... otherwise, even with tweaking the scenes start looking the same, and people shouldn't be able to name your software by looking at an image). It only works with Mac OSX, and I've ordered that (time to upgrade since PhotoShop is now compliant, too), so haven't played with Vue yet. However, they sent me a disk last week with a patch and an apology... they were really rushing to make the show. It looks like there will be good product support. (The patch is downloadable, but sending the disk is nice.) I'll echo the comments above: go through the galleries and stop when you see an image which compares favorably with what you want to accomplish and see what software they used. Also, there are lots of Bryce freebies and community support... I haven't checked yet to see what the Vue user group is like, but that may be another consideration for you. We all learn from each other. Carolly