I've used all programs in the vue series and Bryce 5 and my conclusion about Bryce 5 is that things that are easy to control and use in Vue 4 was annoyingly difficult to use in Bryce. Also, Bruce 5 has an incredibly slow rendering engine, What vue Renders in an hour takes at least five in Bryce!! One thing that was better in Bryce was the amount of really good pre-made textures. That's one thing I still miss in Vue. More textures. Ok, you can ofcourse make your own and mix materials etc and that's what you have to do every time you want a reallistic texture.. Comparing the prices are another thing were Vue gets the upper hand. It's price is a third of Bryces. So... with all this I want to say that Vue is by tens times better than Vue! Ciao!