Esther, The great thing about P5 is that you can have separate runtime folders so you could try it and see if it's better. The learning curve is always steeper with something new, but I only render my characters and build the rest of the scene in any of my other apps (MojoWorld, Vue, Bryce, Photoshop). Again, for me it's not a drastic step and I hear the new render engine is much better. Write to the people at Curious Labs and have them address your concerns to see what they say. It could be you're worried about nothing (I would hope so). By the way, Vue has a patch to work with Poser5 so don't worry about that either. Keep us posted :-) Andy