Hi Anastais, Yes, polar and panoramic are the same thing - and the ones that Carrara requires. The other styles of maps will leave weird, black areas in reflections because Carrara is looking at the whole image (like it does in panoramic) and the other styles have large black areas in the whole image. Sorry to confuse things - I'm good at confusing things. ;) I'll get up a Photoshop mini tutorial a little later on either today or tomorrow. This working for a living, there's got to be an easier way. Mark