OK Polax, you can teach me something. 1) How did you get the area render? If I try to do that, the selected area blows up to the size of the entire render window, which is completely useless. 2) How do you drag an object constrained on the x axis? I have searched for this feature to no avail. I have never quite persuaded myself that e-on left out such a basic feature, but it seems to be well-hidden. On the subject of four-pane views, I think these are over-rated. You can't study all four at once; one tends to look at one at a time. Each window is so small I feel very restricted. With Bryce, switching between different full-screen views is as quick as moving your eye from one small pane to another in Vue. Incidentally, I think one of the reasons that Vue is so woefully sluggish is precisely this: the program is continually polling five different windows for changes to the scene, and the software isn't fast enough to cope. If you have the material browser open as well, it has to poll five more windows! I should say also that I'm not running down aspects of Vue because I want to persuade people to move to Bryce, but because I would like e-on to add the functionality that's missing.