I too am having problems. I look at the sample scenes, read the book, and I have gotten no further. The manual is very good, though there is one thing that bugs me about it. It isn't written for a beginner. It is written in a way that if you do not have any experience in another 3D App and have come across some of the terms in a working condition, you are stuffed. Fractals are a good example. Also the word/term "nodes" is another example, because (until going through some Gnomon Online Maya Tutorials) I had never even heard of the word. And as for my first example, fractal, I heard a friend in the graphic department about 7 years ago mention it to someone. I have not found a explanation of it in the Vue Infinite manual yet (though there might be one I haven't seen yet). Looks like I will be spending a lot of time online, looking for definitions and examples. Love the Program though:)