Detailed mesh... as another artist in the Vue forum discovered, raising the bump will never add detail that isn't there to begin with... As painful as it is, i've learned to use a detailed mesh instead of an expensive (in polys) texture. In Vue, there is danger zone above 1 million polys. I get to that point very easily, and have to start backing off. It's a fine line sometimes. Poser is an entirely different animal. The textures that you try out and don't use hang on forever if you don't save your character/prop back to the library. That adds up very fast.