It's a tool. We need to get familiar with what it was designed to do and what it actually does in our hands... so that when we need a tool, we can reach into the toolbox with some confidence that we have the best tool for the job at hand. Example: a screwdriver can open a can of paint or a bottle of soda or even substitute for a prybar or chisel, however, its best use is turning screws of a certain type and size. If you use the screwdriver for other purposes, why complain when it scratches carpaint or slips off a bottle and stabs the hand? If we have a can to open, we can use that screwdriver or a can opener or even a rock. If there is a bolt to loosen, we have... how many different types of wrenches? They will all do the job, but some tools do the job with less aggravation. Some tools also work better in the hands of others. Michelangelo carved marble as though it was butter. Even a titanium-plated diamond-edged lifetime-warranteed chisel would falter in my hands. I lack the knowledge of where to place it and how hard to strike... and that is a factor of experience as well as innate sensitivity. Folks with both Bryce and Vue know which one to use to get the effect we are after. (Whether it is the handling of the light or number of figures to be placed or whatever, there is some overriding consideration.) It will take months working with an evolving program before we have the same confidence in our choice of posing program. At this point, we don't even know how the advantages and limitations of the new program are going to manifest themselves. It may be that if we need a point light source such as a candle we'll reach for one program and if we need wavering moonlight through tendrilled fog we'll reach for another. In the final analysis, the image that we are trying to create ought to determine which program we use. It will take more than a week to discover that! Carolly