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Ewan, I'm not familiar with Visual Reality; I've never seen their product(s). For your landscaping needs, I would recommend Vistapro ($90-120) with the add-on modules Makepath Flight Director ($50), and Vistamorph ($50-70). You could create the changing seasons, but as for animating storms, you'd have to use a 2D animation program like Autodesk Animator Pro ($550) and either paint a frame at a time, or create a storm and do a composite. If you wanted to add sound, I'd also get Adobe Premiere ($350). Go to the Graphic Vendors Forum and check out some of the stuff in the VRLI library. The is where Vistapro is supported. You will find stills and anims that were made with Vistapro. There is also an app called Scenery Animator. I don't know if there is a PC version. If you are on a Mac, you could also check out a ray-tracing landscape app called KPT Bryce. I've seen some really pretty stuff from that, but a single frame can take hours to render. Michael S. Flynn