I installed Vue Professional on my PC last night.

Some impressions out of the gate:

• VP allowed me to manipulate objects more easily than Vue 4.

• OpenGL worked fine on my machine.

• VP solved some transparent materials problems that I was experiencing in Vue 4.

I had imported some P5 scenes into Vue 4, and rendered them. For some reason (a reason which I never quite managed to figure out), certain transparent materials from the .pz3 file would render in Vue 4 with "psychedelic" color patterns. For example, the "upper eyebrows" on some Poser figures would render in Vue in such a way as to make the figure look like he had multi-colored lights hanging over his eyes. Neither switching materials nor making the object in question 100% transparent helped to fix the problem.

However, when I rendered the same scene in Vue Professional, the transparent material problems solved themselves. The materials rendered like they should have rendered in Vue 4.

So -- off the plate so far -- my experience with Vue Professional has been an extremely positive one.

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