Heh. Pretty much the same thing as going to another software. Not in itself a bad solution! (I still use UVmapper and BBedit to tidy up .obj files I export from Carrara)... Heck, I could run a ripple one frame at a time on an old Mac plug-in I had for Bryce, convert that to a displacement map... The question is...is it worth trying to fake it in Carrara? Especially since the manual is a little unclear about what controls behavior on particles, at least two people thought it was worth at least giving it a try and seeing what actually happens.