Well, it's slightly more generous than I was in the newsgroups where I called Vue one of the finest programs for the creation of digital nature ever written, but controlled by a gang of knuckle-dragging apes in pin-striped suits.

I hear ya!  It's been a love/hate relationship for me, right from the start.
I love Vue - I hate e-on.

:o/

Thanks, and I'm beginning to see that you are right. My kids got me a 120GB SSD for Father's Day and while the extra space is always good, it doesn't seem to have improved my render speeds at all. So now I start saving up for an upgrade. I've used Vue since version 4.5 but after 8, the pricing is too steep for me to just jump in blindly.

Thanks! I've bookmarked that site as well as the one he refers to as the place he got his info from: http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/48.html Got some reading to do tonight!

Sorry, I don't use Google+ but thanks anyway. I'll keep searching...

Well that's disappointing - I have an i7 CPU. Do you know of any tutorials on RAM configfuration that might help? Right now I'm working on a 15 second animation in Vue with some water movement and a gentle breeze blowing through some grass and reeds on a small island. According to Vue, it will finish in about 265 hours, or about 11 days of solid 24/7 rendering. In my mind, that is unacceptable. I could almost draw it by hand in that time!  !!

Well, since Vue saves to most standard image formats, any program that can import those stadard formats can use a Vue scene. I mean, I do background images in Vue all the time that I then import to Poser as a JPG. Animations done in Vue can go out as straight AVI files that also can be imported into Poser.

But if you want to save objects you've made in Vue, you need to buy an export extension from E-on because I haven't found any system that uses the .vob format, other than Vue itself.

Quote - I am looking for models of broken furniture. All I can find is good furniture. I want ripped upholstry, broken legs, etc. I have tried ShareCG and general searches. Thanks

If all else fails, there is a prop available here on Renderosity called "Abandoned House" that includes some nice wrecked furniture, etc.

-Stephen.