What is a good setting for anti-aliasing ? I have tried several settings but I can't seem to get anything that looks right and doesn't take all day to render . As a new user of Vue I have to say that I am not that impressed with the quality of it's renders . Even on the higher settings it seems to make a mess out of even straight edges . Maybe I should have bought Bryce.

Markm, choose "user setting" in render options, then click on "edit" button near antialiasing case, then put the buttons to the right in the pop-up windows(minimum number of subray per pixel=25..., quality = best). For a very basic scene, the rendering time will not be long (few minutes). But with a normal scene, you will see a difference concerning time and quality. But if you are not satisfied with the result in a scene (straight edge), remember that it could comes from the objects themself (straight edge objects will look straight edge objects), so try to use imported objects with rounded edges . Same problem with Bryce I presume, excepted it has more primitives than Vue as far as I know. Yves

In user settings I use between 16 and 25 rays per pixel and bump the quality threshold up about 3/4 of the way or better. The results look good but my final renders usually take anywhere from 20 to 40 hrs.

I tend to use either Ultra or Final. Ultra when It's not too complex, and I know it won't be an all day thing, and Final for those other times. One thing you can do to sort of fake it is to render in Final mode much larger than you plan on needing, and then after it's done, scale it down in an image processing program and maybe add a slight (very slight) blur. You need to use Ultra or better, I think, if you want to use more advanced features like motion blur and soft shadows.