ok some of you may not have noticed that your keyboard can in fact be your friend in bryce! i found these the hard way and there may be many more i don't know. hope these can help others. unfortunately for the mac people out there i don't own one so i don't know what keys do what on a mac. the "ALT" key- when you hold down the alt key and resize the object, bryce will keep the objects center in place this is great for making boolean groups. say you wanted a hollow sphere. just duplicae the outside shpere hold the alt key and shrink the new sphere using one of the corner points. then do your negatives and positives and your all set. you don't have to go into the edit menu and align the spheres cause it kept the new sphere centered. the "CTRL" key- this key is so very usefull. holding the control key and clicking on an object or group of objects will give you a list of every object the pointer touches. this list is in order from the closest object back and does include groups for those of you like me that have groups nested in groups nested in other groups ect. from this list you can pick individual objects without haveing to rearrange things to edit that texture on that sphere way in the back. also for you poser people out there this means no more ungrouping your poser modles to realign the textures! just ctrl+click and click the body parts then go at it. this is great when you stick your poser model into very complicated scenes and your want to still be able to resize and or move the poser modles. ctrl+other keys do neat things too. so i've included a list of combinations i've found quite usefull. CRTL+SHIFT+CLICK= like ctrl click but as you select more and more objects it lets you slelect multiple parts. like a foot and all its toes or a sphere and a square in seperate groups ect. CTRL+D= duplicate selected object CTRL+Z= undo CTRL+X= cut CTRL+C= copy CTRL+V= paste CTRL+Y= flyaround (lets you swing around your moddle to get a feel of how it looks on all sides

thanks for the info....and nice castle. The only one of those I use on a regular basis is ctrl+z, sometimes several times a minute......