Hello Dan and welcome here:-). Have you already got your copy? No, Vue's plants are something very special and the big secret of e-onsoftware's "SolidGrowht". You must know that when you load one of the existing plants and then another sample of the same species and one more and again... each plant of the same species looks different then the previous. Never two plants of the same species looks the same. You can change any existing plant inside Vue and create completely new plants. Lots of alternate leaves are available. Just ask when you are ready:-) The only objects you can export from Vue are terrains. These are exportable in many formats. You also can import all the most known formats into Vue. Eric (audity) from the C4d forum uses Vue also, just ask him aout C4d. To beginn with Vue, when you first open it and to have an idea how it works, please have a look at my tutorial "Vue 4 first steps". You find this and many others in the tutorials list on my site. There are some older tutorials made for Vue 2 and 3, they also can help for Vue 4 and are not outdated. And we are here to answer to all your questions. You do so great images with C4d, I think you will love Vue for its simple handling:-) Guitta