I tried converting a .bmp to .ai for import C2 through the spline editor to use as a plane in the vertex editor as the. I think it could work if I could overcome the problem of converting the (raster).bmp to a (vertex).ai. basic problems so far: 1) I used Corel Draw 8 which will create vector based .ai usable in C2 but as far as I can tell it will not convert raster(.bmp) to a vector based ai. Rather, it simply references a (raster).eps for the bitmap. 2) Carrara 2 will only use the first vector path it runs into. This I could live with by splitting a vertex based .ai into seperate paths. . . . I did a web search for (hopefully free) raster to vector conversion software but it seems that there were thousands of referances to one company making it hard to find anything else related to R to V conversion. Does anyone know af a free software that will perform the conversion? - TJ