I was in Barnes and Noble the other day looking through the graphics books. They had books for Lightwave, 3ds Max, Poser, Bryce, etc... Books on every Macromedia product ever created, Photoshop, Painter, Paint Shop Pro...Windws, C++, Python, Java, Office, blahblah blah.... Everything you could imagine except for Vue. I even asked, and a computer search turned up nothing either available or soon-to-be. My guess is that eventually there will be a Vue book. For that matter, someone could probably write one with all the info in the archives in this forum alone. :) Which is another good way to learn things here, actually: Click the Archive button, and then the Search button and type in something that you want to see if it's ever been brought up and then sift through the answers. Or just ask a new question. :) As far as still images are concerned, I think we've hit on about every subject by now. Our weakness here seems to be in animating, because I don't think alot of people are doing animations with Vue. For that matter, Vue creates beautiful animations, but all but the shortest take quite a while to render. OK, I'm rambling now.... Glad to hear you got Vue, Poll! Sorry to hear about your troubles with crashing while rendering. >:( Did you have any glowing or luminous materials in your scene? One thing you might try to safeguard a pic you really like is to render in segments. Start a render, let it go for a while, then hit ESC to stop the render, save the scene and the picture, overwriting as you go, then close the render screen and under the Picture menu, select Resume Render,and your picture will take up where it left off. If you have a crash, you can restart Vue, and the render will still be where it was at at the time of your last save, so you can hit the Resume Render button again, and it will continue on. Unfortunately, you can't do it if you have any "glowing" materials in your scene, and possibly with luminous materiasl as well. >:[