Hi John, I had the same problem with Vue and its lighting set-up as well its much different to Poser but it's so much more controllable. What I do now is all the posing in Poser then bring it into Vue for lighting and everything. Take yourself along to the Vue Freestuff and hunt out this set ATMOSPHERES FOR VUE 4 by AUDITY It might be 2 or 3 pages in but they are great and it has one called Still Life Black which has no lights no sun and no fog so it is very much like a Poser layout, which allows you to put your lights in as you want. Good luck David