Thanks guys,

TD, you've obviously not had the problem I had - that's exactly what I was trying to achieve!

I actually prepared this scene for my wife who's the Poser fanatic.  I'd just got Vue and she asked whether I could do a rainy night scene based on one of her Poser files. She's now going to do some other scenes based on this which I hope to post when she's done them.

The results have come out far better than we expected and I'm very impressed with Vue8's rendering capabilities - much more realistic than P8's - albeit rather slow.