Bryce and Vue are both good for landscapes, Vue is particularly good if you want plants. As far as I know, renders are done in Bryce because it gives a better result ditto 3D Max etc. I personally render in Poser but do the lights in Psp because in my humble opinion, the Poser lighting is crap :) I have a utility called Virtual Studio which I think was free on Rosity that has better lights. It comes as a PZ3 and you just load it in and do the scene in there - make sure all the figures etc are in the library first. About to get Nerd's Backdrop Tool, which is only $10 and looks pretty good for doing outdoors - it's difficult getting realistic effects with a background image and a bit of stretchy grass. I export my ground plane to Psp and texture it there to avoid the texture stretches, so stuff comes out the right size. Hope this rambling has been some help.

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