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.

Oh, yeah..... I should mention that the render time in Vue Professional was slower than in Vue 4 - for the same scene. However, Vue Professional rendered everything correctly, without adjustments. Vue 4 did not.

Poser and Vue are handling transparencies (but also metalic materials, lights, reflections) differently. Adjust the highlights for the eyebrows, not only the transparency. For the eyes, you may add some highlights; Poser highlights are often black. Change it to white. Hope this helps:-) Guitta Vue pro is only slower for renders in Broadcast. This is because e-on found that the broadcast in Vue 4 was not sufficient. You also can see that you have 1 more render option: superior.

Thanks for the advice, gebe! As I mentioned, the transparent materials problem just went away by itself when the scene was rendered in Vue Professional. I'll give your recommendations a try, and see the effects.