I don't want to have to link nodes anymore (but I think the option should still be there for the geekier among us...lol). Vue overlays the node system with a visual preview (and a very good one - independent of the lights in the scene) and a slider/function/profile based system that I think EVERYONE would better understand than what we have now. I think Vue's material editor is extremely easy to understand, even for the novice. As it is now, the material room is way above the normal user's head and if it weren't for I'd say less than 5 ppl on this site, no one would have a clue (which is very, very sad and should tell SM something).

The hair room is like wrestling a very large bear (or at least a very strong and irksome monkey) and is something I won't even touch right now (tho I'd like to).

Oh, and Basicwiz? All dispersion does is tell the material how to change colors as it moves thru a material, sort of like a diamond does (all the blues, pinks, etc show up according to depth and angle of the light and the surface). The presets I mention (like those Luxrender uses) are simply a base material set up with all the real world properties, like metals. You then do what you want with the base metal material, rather than set the entire thing up from scratch, such as adjusting roughness (the amt of shininess and reflection and how big or how small), color, bump, and so on.

As for 64 bit...it's been around since we've had XP for crying out loud. Nearly every program comes in 32 bit (if you need it) and 64 bit (Blender, which is FREE comes to mind). How many of us on this site don't have a 64 bit rig and have for years now? I know I have ;). To me, 64 bit should not have ever been a "pro" features. It's rather archaic now to supply only 32 bit to vanilla Poser users.

Laurie