Thank you. The image has been redone and should look a little sharper now. 1400 x 788 (because of forum limitations), 221K, render time 5:51. Drag from the browser or something to see full size. Aliasing is still possibly tricky but with some experimentation potentially discernable. Seems to be improved.

The render engine has been the same in previous versions hasn't it? I thought it was. So yes, you'd think the photometric features should be available in Vue Artist. Nice.

As for speed, I've only tested a few things but at all settings renderings were generally a little faster. In past versions that has translated to huge scenes scaling proportionally. Instead of two days only one day or more or less. Every little bit. Still need to do a lot more testing.