oh THANK YOU for the screen captures to SHOW me the camera menus... that will be great to learn and impliment!

oh.. so maybe the 8.5 PRO IS written WELL as a 64 bit program and makes the difference??  Howie's scenes DO crash if I try to move in any view above bounding boxes. Hmmm. I did try out switching from bounding boxes to shaded and back to check where my camera movements landed me, and that worked well for me....

So... IS there a difference, opinions please?  My machine sure is more than enough, it sounds like... but as well as Carrara 8 is written, perhaps it is still limited by it's 32 bit version... I was very unsure of DAZ's programers abilty to RE-WRITE Carrara into 64 bit, and not just "port" it over, in a manner of speaking. After spending such a bundle on the machine itself I am being VERY cautious about buying software now.

And now I am going to ask a very "dumb" question... just what ARE/is HDRI .... lights? and if so... still... what does it mean exactly? I know there is such a thing in Poser but I never really understood that lighting concept/type.

and FYI... I honestly don't see me EVER using human figures IN Carrara... just moving around a scene and learning about "shaders" and lighting is about all I can handle... at least at this stage. :)

Thanks SO much for your opinions and help !!!

Lyne

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!