Al, reason i was looking at something other than software is because of a graphics problem i had. At first i thought it was graphics card so i replaced that, still had the problem and after weeks of trying to figure out what it was and nearly throwing in the towel my wife told me to change my monitor over with hers. Low and behold my problem was fixed so next morning we went out and picked up a 19" lcd monitor for my computer.

I know it can be very frustrating when you render something and all you get is an image that looks bad after you put in the time to set everything up in the scene.

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.