Cheers Koetjeka,

when I first started this thread back in '09, I was just a beginner and learning in Artlantis, that program is simple to use and you can be getting nice images within a couple of hours playing with it.
I moved to Maxwell render about 2ish years ago and now only work with that, although I do occasionally go back to artlantis if a new version is released to see if there are any major quality changes.
Maxwell suits me just fine at the moment.it has an archiCad plugin so very easy to transfer over.