Playing With Lighting

Most of us at the group seem to have got Vue 6 working. If its easy we'll use this program for creating scenes and the final render otherwise it'll be used for concept work.
Here's two versions of a candle I made in Maya. The top image is rendered in Vue 6- with a basic texture the bottom one is rendered in Maya with a more tweaked texture. The Vue 6 allows different lighting shaders to be created easily which makes for a more stunning render.