The Surface Selection tool is a tool to use to select the surface of an object with your mouse without having to search for it in the surfaces palette. You can choose another tool in the top row of buttons. You cannot create an environment in Studio, but you can use environment props to "fake" an environment. If you have Bryce, you can take what you've put together in DAZ|Studio and import it into Bryce. What sort of things are you looking for? Basically, DAZ|Studio is a Posing/Rendering/Basic Animation program, which is quite a lot for a free program. You can use primitives to create using the free Primitives plugin from DAZ. As for your colour problem, first I'm going to assume that you've got the latest version of studio (1.0.1.0), and you've updated your video card drivers. After that, Go into your Surfaces palette (if it is not on your desktop, go to Windows>Surfaces) and see what colours are set up for your object. ;) Not all of us use Studio for just human figures. I love using Lisa's Botanicals Collection for different images, and importing it into Bryce 5.5 for volumetric environments. I hope that helps, and, if not, let us know ;) MS

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