OK, I am SURE that I told Carrara to save all shaders internally on a project I am working on. I saved it, closed it, and then re-opened it, and my shaders were all mixed up. (On a column that I had made grey marble, it was plain gray plastic, among other problems... Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong? Oh, it seems to happen only on files that I have imported models... Thanks Everyone! Aeryk71

Oh man...I havent run into that one yet. Clint

Yep, just ran into that last night. No work around, but to reapply the shaders, or maps. And yes when using imported objects. Another strange one I've run into is, you select a mesh, apply a texturemap, then select the next mesh on the same object. Go into the texture room and the mesh you just selected isn't viewed but the previous mesh you just worked with. I've been able to get a work around when this happens, by applying the default shader to the mesh you can't get into the texture room, then enter the texture room and make changes. Basicly that's the only quirk I'm having so far, knock on wood.

I ran into this one once, after importing a lot of objects and making a lot of changes to the shaders. Seems to me if Carraras memory space for the shaders screws up. Since then, when doing a lot of changes in shader room, from time to time I click 'Edit/Remove unused shaders'. Until today this error did not happen again. I hope it will stay like this... wolfdd