Thanks a lot. Monsoon's advice worked :biggrin:. Nevertheless - why they disabled vowels???

It's time to check all new features :woot:

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You can also check full featured version of Silo at www.nevercenter.com. Not so many options like modo but price is also several times lower. Or check free wings3d. I like last two modellers as they have more user friendly learning curve. A lot of options like in modo are nice but how many will you use in reality?

http://www.graphique3d.republika.pl/

It is one of galleries which convinced me to buy V5I. Maybe SciFi is not your favourite subject but there are excellent examples of ecosystems. By the way, the renderings were used in promotion of Vue.
Currently, import from Poser does not work perfectly and many corrections have to be done in the material editor so as to remove plastic and flat look but I hope that incoming patches will correct it. Nevertheless, it is really impressive software IMHO.
As agiel mentioned, the backroom is a good place for start.

Good luck :)

Thanks. It is south of France.

The background is a photo taken during my holidays.

Thanks :) You are right. I reach the same conclusion about positioning the lights in IBL mode. I have also discovered that additional (not IBL) lights don't create shadows when IBL is on (I am not sure if it is a real discovery or I simply missed something reading the manual). I use position of IBL light for creation of shadows and - of course - so as to create proper highlights the infinite light has to be in the same position. Despite wrong assumptions - infinite for shadows, I get the proper result - infinite for highlights. After 2 year break in working with Poser and after moving directly from P4 to P6 I consider P6 possibilities as really amazing. Thank you for your comments

Thanks for your replies. I have changed shadows parameters and adjusted the "sun position" as it was advised. And I changed colour of the light imitating the sun so as to match warmer look of the rest of the photo. The main point is, of course, that the same photo is for background and for IBL and it does not reflect the whole environment so it must be corrected by additional lights and simultaneously it decreases usefulness of IBL in this case.

In my case the problem was connected with conflict of pop-up help windows in Poser's rooms and antivirus monitor. I have switched off av monitor in the task manager and succesfully entered all Poser's rooms. After Windows reloading all works perfectly - with Norton and Zone Alarm in the background. Many thanks for all of you for ideas and solutions. I hope that your problems will be resolved too.

Exactly the same behaviour like DrmzRmyne case. using menu or tabs - the program crashes to the desktop. I turned off firewall and antivirus (Norton) during installation and during the first run but it did not work :-( I have to agree - very frustrating... BTW, no problem with any other software and solid rock stability.