No steps in between at all. Do you have the Poser 4.03.126 patch applied? Are you checking off every box EXCEPT "save as morph target no world transformations"? I will try it again with the basic P4 woman with the Poser 4 bikini parts applied and post a rendering of it. I still think that you must have something in there which you might not be aware of which is causing the problem. But, it's not un-heard of for some people to simply have a bad installation of Vue for some reason. Other problems recently have been fixed by re-installing Vue. Do you have version 3 or 3.1? I don't know what the problem was with 3, but it was fixed with the 3.1 patch, so they say, and is free at the E-On website to registered Vue d'Esprit 3 users.