Two years ago I got it for free and have to admit, I'm a little bit surprised that they do sell it again for some 150 $ (it's from 2014). It's sold from DAZ, meaning that there wasn't an update for eons. Then there is still carrara pro 8.5 around, which has something like a plant creator and volumetric clouds.
To get good results you'd need some time to learn it (more than I ever invested), but it can deliver professional results. With $ 349 (creator) / $ 699 (professional) it's cheaper than vue. There is a free version (with ridiculous low render settings) you could test out. Clouds have in my opinion almost always a slightly unnatural look, like painted (but I have seen a few pictures with good results). I never bought it, only had a beta version of 4, and have to admit, I never was that happy with it. Then there is terragen, meanwhile not even very pricey anymore. But I still would try out the test version, just to have something for comparison. They were bought one or two years ago and try now to be again a solution for professionals (somewhere on the way since 6 they seemed to care more for the poser market than anything else).(Only the 'creator' solution is not bank breaking). But for fast backgrounds with clouds and plants I still haven't found anything better for a halfway reasonable price. (only this time without a save as I was just installing and installing. Stupidly I had forgotten that when I changed the computer and had kept the updater. Stable it was, but renders took forever even on fast machines and with much smaller resolutions than are needed today (I remember an update that crashed the disk with it's installer. The last version of vue I really know was 6 infinite, and that I used quiet a lot. It really depends a little bit on what you need and what you exactly mean with 'scenery'.
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