well now i'm gonna yell. STAY ON TOPIC WOULDYAS!? :P :) 1: for vue to save tifs (or psds if that isnt too much to ask) with alpha/z channels IN the channels, not as separate files. you know, instead of picture.tif and picture_a.tif, you can have picture.tif with the alpha channel IN it. 1a: to auto load tif alpha channels as the trans map for texture-based materials. (ie: to load the colour channels in the colour tab and the alpha channel in the trans tab.) the alpha plane does something like this doesnt it? maybe i can use that to build materials... 2: um... i'm sure i had something but i cant think of it now. the waves sound good, and the new scatter/replicate and measurements are good... and twisting and stuff.... yep, all good. (dunno about the pointer thingy and the 'rendering line whatever outta whatnot' thing, i have no use for that, myself. :) )