Here's another thought along this same line: How many great tips/techniques/bits of advice are posted here in the forum, only to get buried away in the archives and never seen again (except by people with all the free hours it would take to read back through all the messages)? It's a shame we can't find a way to compile the best of this stuff somewhere. Right now, there's probably someone here struggling to figure out something that was explained three or four months back. There's so much knowledge on the web, and even on this site alone, but it's all so fragmented, strung out here, there, and everywhere. I guess I'm just wishing there were at least some kind of directory or something to pull it all together, but preferably a web book of some sort that you could refer to. You know, a section on lighting, a section on materials, etc. Tutorials on specific tricks and effects, as well as more general advice on things that work nicely, things that don't, things that'll crash your program... whatever. Maybe I'm just dreaming, I don't know. Hey, what can I tell you, I'm an "ideas person" ;)