Hello allthebestoneshavegone,
I appreciate your comments and frustrations with Renderworks, and your comparisons of your experiences between 2010 and 2011. I think much of your experiences are related to a number of factors, including a lack of new learning resources from us to help you as a user benefit from the new rendering capabilities and qualities in 2011. However, we have just added a new free resource for users on our website. The Renderworks Getting Started Guide written for Nemetschek Vectorworks by long time Architect, trainer, user, and author Dan Jansenson can be found at http://www.nemetschek.net/training/free_resource.php
It is very well written, and is easy to follow along quickly with the accompanying exercise files.
We are working on additional resources continually in an effort to help you all be more successful with the Vectorworks product line. I hope you find the new Getting Started Guide to be a good aid in helping you learn approaches that will maximize your use of Renderworks 2011.
There are a couple of additional topics in the Vectorworks Knowledgebase which you might find helpful:
Lighting Migration Tips http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/821/Migration+Tips+-+Vectorworks+2011+-+Lighting
Texture Migration Tips
http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/832/Migration+Tips+-+Vectorworks+2011+-+Textures
As I said, there is more to come. I hope you find these first few items useful. Please feel free to message me with further questions. We're more than happy to understand your challenges and try and help.
Best Regards,
Jeremy Powell
Director Product Marketing