**"My experiences with Vue are from some years ago (Vue 8) and were not very good. A simple HDRI skymap took days to render."......** **Someone did another HDRI map for me recently and her render times were measured in days as well -[ and she was using Vue2014. So I don't think that it has changed. And she is very proficient in Vue. Apparently rendering clouds is extremely time consuming."**

Hi all ,on the matter of vue and indoor portraiture;

In past threads I have seen people say that " while vue rules the world vast outdoor daylight renders for poser content
it falls a bit flat for indoor lighting situations".

To this I would only offer my limited experience with my entry level copy of vue6 "easel' purchased for $49 USD, from the now defunct COMPUSA, in 2006.

When it comes to indoor rendering
you must switch your lighting model from "standard" to "environmental mapping"
disable/delete the sun and any standard vue scene lights and use a high quality INDOOR HDRI file as the only source of light and you will get a much better/faster result IMHO

attached are a few indoor renders did this week in vue 6 easel
all averaged about nine minutes on a seven year old Macbook laptop with 2 GIGs of RAM. 

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