Well I went through the same thing here recently. A friend of mine had an ancient copy of Bryce, version 3 I think that I played with a bit. After about 2 hours of trying to figure out where everything was I gave up. Downloaded the vue demo and ordered it the next day. I just can't help feeling that Vue is much much more user friendly, and personally I think the interface is light years beyond what even bryce 5 has. Really for the price, you just can't beat it. It imports poser figures, .3ds, .lwo etc. You just can't go wrong NOTE: This opinion is biased as the writer just spent what he and his wife considers quite a bit of money on a program. Your mileage may vary.