Glad to hear it worked for you Sandy! And you have learned the first, and most important thing there is to know about Vue d'Esprit, which you need to remember at all times: "Vue Funny Sometime!" ;) I went and had a look at your pictures, and I have to say, you did a pretty good job. I'm surprised at the clarity of the images, because I thought maybe anti-aliasing would be disabled in the demo or something. Good compositions, too. The only advice I would have isn't really advice, but play around with the material editor as much as you can. I can see you've already gotten a taste of what it can do, but look into things such as the altitude-dependant control when using mixed nmaterials...and just generally dig into the thing completely. Vue's material editor is far more intuitive than Bryce's, IMHO. it seems to me that the Bryce people tried to confuse us. :/ Yeah, I have Bryce 4, too, but I never "mastered" it, and the whole setup cause me alot of frustration, particularly where the material editor was concerned.