Thanks a lot! Problems are far to be solved, but I'm back having some time on my hands again! As for the C4D/Bryce issue, I find C4D modelling simply fantastic, as much as the very powerful render engine. Really another planet. If you saw my first C4D render, it's a full volumetric/caustic rendering with high AA settings and the 1280x1024 rendered in 20 minutes... The problem I'm having is with the materials (or "shaders", you name it): so far, I think Bryce DTE is way more powerful, and I keep on banging my head on the texturing method in C4D. Thinking I was simply a dumb newbie, I found very encouraging the interview with cartesius in the Pro-Files of Digital Artworks who said more or less the same thing. Btw, our fellow Brycer sbleci got featured in the DA ProFiles, congrats! :) S.