Thanks.

I'd appreciate further feedback on V4 with Vue, if any of you have tried it yet.

I'm currently a Carrara user, and the first-look at V4 with Carrara is somewhat disappointing. As I'm also concerned on what is going to happen with Carrara when Poser 7 comes out, I'm starting to look into the possibility of switching to Vue 6.

Do the V4 morphs all work correctly in Vue? 

• Jaeger

Thanks for the comments! I totally agree with you on the slow movements. It's due to me depending too much on the software's tweening, rather than really thinking through the way the body moves. I went out and bought a couple of books on character animation last weekend to try to learn how to improve on it for next time. I'll put it in the outlet too.

I take it that Poser 4 didn't support alpha. So it was a silly question :)

nemirc - this may be a silly question, but why don't you just render with an alpha channel? I thought that combustion supported it.

Is the link correct? I'm getting a "domain name does not exist" message

I use Carrara rather than Vue, but have a similar config of PC, and those rendering speeds definitely sound as though something is badly wrong in your settings. I suggest you do some trial renders with basic (draft mode?) settings. Do you still have the problem? If so, it would indicate a PC problem. If not, it's a Vue setting. Start to change Vue settings gradually until you find the one that's causing the problem. I would also strongly recommend that you dump Pinnacle in favour of Sony Movie Studio. However, even though it supports chromakeying ("Green Screen"), you will get much better results with alpha channels (and you won't have to worry about what colour clothes your characters are wearing).

Great - thanks for the replies!