I'll second azul's comment -- very useful indeed! I wonder how many other little black arrows and features there are lurking around in Carrara that I'm oblivious to! Oh, and I'd agree with what folks have been saying about Donnie's image above.... I've never played with Bryce or Terragen, but have often drooled over the images produced with those packages. Is it possible to use either of those packages to create a sky that you could map into Carrara's background feature? Or into a HUGE sphere you place around your landscape? In the occasional landscape I do, I've often used photographic skies for the backdrop, because you can't beat them. A mentor of mine in the special effects world once mentioned that if you can get the skies right, the rest of an effect shot will work. - Dex