The beauty of merging files (in bryce) is that you can set up one file as the base environment file, and a second file may have just your plants in it, while a third may have just your poser figures from one area in it... then you can just merge (the merge command uses the same coordinate system for both scenes so everything ends up in the right place) the files you want for rendering while keeping the system resources a little bit emptier by not having the other things you don't need loaded while making the scene. I expect the combination of Vue's scene layers (which look amazingly handy and they're something I really wished bryce had had on many occasions) and storing/loading 400MB vobs full of things would allow me to do do something like this. re - display quality - it ended up being the background drawing I needed to put up high to see the wireframe - I'd already played with the instant drawing slider yesterday and it had no effect (looks like instant only effects the mesh display while your moving the mesh) but I hadn't of thought of the object as the "background" so didn't touch the background slider. Oh well, works now, understood now. "No downloadable manual for the demo version, no. Only one for registered users. " Damn. That would've solved alot of these RTFM sorts of questions lol. Actually I'm quite impressed with the demo (though haviung cd symbols on most of the default-installed content is a little tiring lol) - and the ui (for me) seems pretty fast to pick up :) Once again, thanks for the help. Most appreciated :)

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