Chippw: Thanks for the welcome! Your tutorials have proven very helpful to me for learning Vue.I thank you and Peggy so much for past help! I am indeed enjoying Vue and the creation of my world, which I call "Midian". It comes from a story I'd started way back in high school and has lived on,now in CG form.

Traligill:A few of my friends had probs with Xstream and Max files.I'd asked a few of the people here about Xstream. I took a while to decide on "just" Infinite.I may lateral out at some time.I'd like to try C4D some time.I've seen amazing models done with it. Thanks for the input!

FrankT: I will check into those, for sure! I'm pretty comfortable with Max,so I'm hoping to get some models out to share soon with some modeling app.

I like architecture,especially anything gothic in nature.I'm also looking at Zbrush,and I may start some figures for Poser eventually.My friend, Neomea,here at Rendo is willing to show me the ropes in the areas of custom Poser textures and morphs.I always liked Sanctum Art and Sixus1 for creatures,and stonemason has always created cool stuff. I just discovered those Cliff Demons last night and bought a set. So much awesome stuff out there. I want to try those SeaVue mats I keep seeing in the great water pics.