Paul, regarding the "plastic look" there is a very easy solution: Just open the texture editor, choose the appropriate texture and decrease specularity. Regarding the lightning IMHO it's not too bad that Vue doesn't import the lights. Wiht Vue you can get way much better/natural lightning results and it's much easier if you are used to it, since the lights can be positioned and edited very easily. You can do things that weren't possible in Poser with a lot of fiddling with the lights. Hope this helps, Phil