Petshoo, after your explanation, i think that Carrara don't have a real SSS, i think that is something like poser firefly rendering. BTW, if you need advanced render with "real" interaction, you can buy Maxwell at $ 495 for only a few days:-) This is not "evangelism" (that i'm not interested too)... BTW, if you switch from Vue to Carrara don't expect an incredible better quality, the two rendering engines of both apps are good and at the same quality or almost (don't know wich it's the better, i have the Vue cd still in my Lightwave pack:-P. -TOXE