Lights do not go over into Shade. As for what to render in; there is much to be said about Operaguy's advice; you -do- need to stay with Poser, and learn how to squeeze out every drop of capability it has. The shader system permits rendered effects that you can't get otherwise. That said, there is as much argument for the VueMover combination....it really depends on -what- you intend to do. Vue shines as an environment builder. Doing interiors is...challenging. What I've found is that there are things that are best rendered in Poser, and things that are best rendered in Vue, and making sure that the outputs from both are in uncompressed numbered images. That way you can composite and create the actual animation file in an editor. Vue 5's lighting features do add a hefty time penalty to a render, but you also have the RenderCow network rendering system, which lets you spread the load over several computers.