Patrick, thanks for the info.  The plants appear to be somewhat better than VUE5 (apparently can develop some yourself-when mine finally arrives, I'll find out how much I can do myself).

Hmm a lot of people are using geocontrol--I assume a plugin??  Need to check that out.  Probably Carrara's manual (I think I get one since its a boxed version) will state what plugins will work or perhaps there are some on the disc/s.   I'm too darn old to be bouncing between a darn .pdf and the work area-need a manual to look at-my RAM is better than the computer's-book marks work.  Jan