Hi folks, Jang, i think you can download a PDF file of the manual at Eovia's site ... but i couldn't find it :( . Does anyone know where it is ? Or maybe i just dreamed it ;) Anyway, here's a very good starting point to learn Carrara if you understand american : http://www.computer-training-software.com/carrara.htm The full CD looks really good . You can buy it or ...try to win it here on the forum ! It's the prize for this month's contest :) To Will and Mark : i've been teaching Carrara in a art school here in France, we had some bi-G4 @ 450Mhz but i never could make the SMP option work ... it was all greyed out :( . We were using CS 2.0 unpatched, maybe that's the problem ? litst -----> www.chez.com/litst (tutorials here too)