I think its dreadful software. I have battled with Easel and upgraded to Esprit in the hope things would be better.

I have 4Gb Memory and a Core 2 Duo processor (I forget which one but a reasonable one). Nuff said.

I load darling Victoria in poser, add one outfit of clothes (White Rose from Aery Soul) and save. 

Load Vue 6 Esprit, no scenery - blank canvas, just Victoria. Load another copy of Victoria but this time say I want to use Poser shader tree (to compare colours). IT RUNS LIKE A DOG. SLOOOOOOWWWWWW. Render (Final quality). It crashes. Not every time, but often enough to make me go "Hey, I don't trust this software".

When it doesn't crash, the textures on one of the Victoria's clothes are replaced by the ones from inside her mouth. Not all the time, only when i render - they look fine otherwise. And it crashes again.

The colours of Vue's internal shaders are awful compared to Poser's. A render in Poser looks lovely, export it into Vue, position lights similarly and use Vue's shaders. Yuk. User Poser's shaders (if you can, without it crashing) - great. But try loading any scenery of moderate complexity and you run out of memory.

Okay, you say, "render externally". It works - sort of - I get two DOS windows, one with the renderer woking in it... fine, the other one opens and closes every 3 seconds for th duration of the render, making the computer unusable for anything since it steals the focus.

All in all, its nice software... limited I suspect by the OS (probably would be bettor on a 64bit OS)so I shouldn't be to harsh on it, but it runs badly on a fully spec'd 32bit machine, crashes often (it tries to recover but fails every time) and the shader tree is not good. The renderer is slow compared to firefly too.

A rant, I know, but I spent quite a bit of money on this software and all it seems to be good for is generating nice 2D backgrounds to import into Poser and I really hoped to be able to do more with it than that.

:((   <- my satisfaction with this software