I wish I could express how much I can relate to your dillemma. Let me say this. C will render a bucket truck times faster than Raydream which makes it very desireable straight away. C is still being developed and enhanced and is a living code. You can find a lot of help here when you get a book that will get you through the interface stuff. Write Eovia and see if they will e-mail you the pdf which has the help file in it. I don't know what kind of response you'll get but it's worth a shot. The next version of C is OS X native. Hope this helps in some backward way. -Kix

-Kix