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Yes there's a bug with the soft shadows. You will have to enable soft shadows for each light you want to have the softer shadows for. Wgreen- Bryce 5 renders scenes a bit faster than 4 did, and is a good deal stabler than 4 was when it was released. Yes, there a some bugs, but you have to take the good with the bad. What settings and what scenes gave you long render times? Bryce 4 scenes supposedly render a bit slower in Bryce 5 than native Bryce 5 scenes. Adding lights will dramatically increase render times, especially with soft shadows. Materials and volume materials can also hurt rendering times. Bryce 5 also offers more flexibility with the premium render settings, as well as the ability to change ray depth and total internal reflection. You can also take advantage of network rendering if you have multiple computers. What are you doing in B5 which is convincing you to switch to Vue?