Hi Manikin !

I use VUE and POSER. With the latest VUE 4.06 update, a POSER static file will be imported perfectly. VUE is cheap, powerful and very easy to use.

A few things that you should know before purchasing it :

1. Although poser models are imported correctly in VUE making them look good requires hours of work. If you don't use any tricks your nice poser models will look flat and lifeless. Go in the VUE gallery, you'll see what I mean...

2. VUE's rendering engine - ray tracing - is very slow. If you want high quality renders and if you use advanced features such as volumetric lights, blurred transparencies and soft shadows be prepared for hours of rendering.

3. It's very hard to make totally clean and sharp renders in VUE. I've seen every images posted in the VUE gallery for the last 6 months and to be honest only a few of them are clean and "photorealistic". The others are all grainy... in POSER rendering is a easy job : adjust the light, click CTRL-R, wait a few minutes, and it's done !
   in VUE there are hundreds of settings to adjust to reach a good result. You can spend hours fixing just one texture in the material editor...

If you're looking for a better rendering quality than POSER you should look somewhere else. Try Cinema 4D XL 7 or Lightwave. They can both import POSER scenes/animations, and the rendering are outstanding. I use Cinema 4D XL 7 and my poser models looks amazing with a single white spotlight.

But if you only hesitate between Bryce an VUE, go for VUE. It's surely more powerful and easy to use !

:) Eric