I was creating a scene in Vue 4.12 (Win 98 SE), and all was going well. I had items with alot of reflection,and transparency in the scene. Then I wanted a few plants in the scene, so I loaded a fern, and it rendered like a spectrum of all the colors. that's the only way I can describe it, it looked like a Christmas tree! The material summary said it was the fern material, though, but it was rendering wrong. So then I tried different plants with the same results. Deleted the plants, saved the scene, closed Vue, rebooted, reopened the scene and added plants, but this time they looked normal. Very strange, but I'm wondering if it was a RAM problem or too many transparencies. I've never had that happen before, and just was wondering if anyone else has seen the same thing.

I've never seen that Mike. Maybe Vue could not "understand" the difference between reflections and plants?? LOL I have just tried it with water and 12 different spheres and cubes, mapped with all sorts of glass and metal and a fern. It came out normally. Guitta

i had once something like that when i added clouds to a scene (on the Windows version) and was too close with the camera to these clouds - or even in the middle of these clouds. But i was not able to reproduce it, so i decided that it must be more a local problem of my system than a Vue one.

I have seen this happen. Not really sure why it happens, however I think it is a systems situation. I run XP myself. Vue can also be sensitive to other programs that maybe running in the background. A reboot seems to fix what ever it is. Looked like a kaleidoscope of color.

Yeah, a kaleidoscope of color is exactly what it looked like. I haven't been able to repeat the problem though, which is, of course a good thing, and since rebooting solved it the first time, I'm sure it will again if I ever see it again. Thanks for the input. :)