Thanks Kristi. I have already posted a question on there. I noticed the forum is called Marvelous Designs, however, the product name is Marvelous Designer as listed on their website here:

Marvelous Desinger

Hello archdruid.
Photoshop is one of my tools for working with digital art projects.  My other tools are Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Vue, to name a few.  In the past I have used Photoshop for post touch up work on 3D rendered scenes. This year I'm going to spend some time in exploring raw digital drawing / painting (art without the aid of 3d tools providing a base) with photoshop and Illulstrator.

So if you or anyone can point out what Corel Painter can offer in this area (raw digital drawing / painting) that would make it worth it to add it to my other tools then please do.  I am going to see if I can download Corel Painter today, hoping if I can find out as well but like most mature art products I suspect it will be filled with a huge list of features which will take more time than the trial period will provide to uncover. 

Hello Shawn

Not sure what the problem is yet. But I did find out that I can export the core city object instead of the provided presets.  The presets look real good in C4d so was trying to export those but can not for now. The core city parts are exporting but I'm not getting the textures to come through into Vue.

I'm experimenting with maybe just making some buildings from scratch in C4d then import them into Vue. As for the city generator I'll just save it for when I want to make the entire scene inside of C4d on a later project. For now I want this current project's scene to be rendered in Vue.

Hello Nazak.
Thanks for the solution. The zoom does indeed work from the NumPad for the ctrl + and minus. I was using + and - from the main keyboard. I'll have to remember to try the NumPad more often if I run into someting like this again. 

Hello Mazak.
Thank you very much. Works like a charm.  Don't know how I missed that one.  I'm back onto the project.  Have a nice day!

Hello lesbentley.
Your idea on locking the arms sounds good. How do you lock the entire arm from shoulder to the hands? I see under the figure menu "lock figure" and "lock hands" but I don't know how to lock the arm. Thanks in advance.

Hello hborre. Thanks for the info. When I saw your screen picture with the red circled button I realized that I did not even notice that row of options there. Apparently I had my selection set on the "Figures" button and that is why I did not see any clothing.  This is a case of a picture is worth a thousand words so thanks again! Now I'm making some progress now that you have pointed out that row of button options.

I currently have C4D installed and Vue 9 xStream. I was just at the e-onsoftware site and notice there is Vue 9.5 xStream now. It looks from the advertisement like maybe if you have Vue 9.5 xStream that it automatically integrates with C4D now? If this is the case then maybe I don't need a plugin after all, just need to upgrade to Vue 9.5 xStream? If I upgrade I wonder if that will automatically change the menu bar in my current version of C4D R12 so that it has Vue 9xStream capabilities. Below is the page I noticed that seems to indicate this:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_9.5_xstream/

Does anyone already have both C4D R12 and Vue 9.5 to confirm this?

Thanks everyone. Flipping the camera around appears to have fixed it.  I get into trouble usually when I try and move it with my mouse.  I've decided to just put a small cone pointed forward in the scene next to the camera and make it tansparent and have the camera linked to it.  Then I just move the cone around so the camera follows it.  That seems to help me stop flipping the camera upside down for now.

Well,

Using the meta clouds was not too bad. Here is a link to one of my dry runs on making a clould animation for a project I'm working on:

http://www.savvyrealm.com/cloudtest1.wmv

This is a small clip that will go into a large project I'm working on.

Hello hobepaintball.

Your video fills the screen exactly like I want to.  I think my problem is somewhere in between some other software I used with the vue movie I made.  I made a vue video with a directory of .png files but then I used Adobe After Effects to assemble the files into a single avi so maybe something went wrong there.  To make matters worse I then took the output avi and dropped it into Sony Vegas Studio where I combined it with other video clips and stills so again maybe something went wrong at the Sony Vegas step.  Argh!  But hey, you filled the screen perfectly so I know now that those are the right settings.  Thanks!

Thanks Paloth and ShawnDriscoll.

The Autodesk product looks great but it also says it is available with the purchase of other Autodesk products. The insight3D looks like a possibility though it does say don't hold your breath and that it does not always work, hmm...wonder why.

Since the insight3D is free I will probably give that a try, although I have already started modeling the church building in Cinema 4D I was interested in. I want to make a vue cgi movie with a fly in surrounding the church then a smooth motion tour into the church. If the photos were to work it would be a great help because only after I started trying to model inside of the building did I realize the structural details that were there I never noticed before.

Hello holgster,

The difference between vue complete and infinite is shown at this link:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_9_complete/index.php?page=15&BaseProduct=Vue 9 Complete

In many areas they are the same but also in many areas they are not.

Money Money Money, something a bit of a demand these days if you try to keep your software up to date.  The thing is most folks working in digital art have several products to keep up to date so sometimes they have to wait a bit before they can pay the upgrade for something on their list. 

So it's a bit frustrating to know you could have bought the upgrade at a reduced price but just didn't have the money during the 30 days they offered it before pulling the plug. Kind of like pressured sales.  Oh well, but sometimes something has to give when your faced with updates for other things like Adobe CS5 Production Suite and Cinema 4D release 11, etc.  It's all just too much to upgrade at once for of use more limited means people.

Blah.  Yup you folks are right. I got a reply from e-on that there is no upgrapde path for Vue 6 to Vue 9. Only way for me to get it now is to pay full price. I thought about gettin Vue 8 from some place but by the time I would buy Vue 8 then upgrade it would still cost about the same as buying a new one.  The only upside is that I won't have to have the prior discs to instal the upgrade if I buy the full version.