BT, if I ever get the money scraped together, I might buy the CD. Unfortunately, I can barely afford to upgrade Carrara, let alone get any of the extras that would be nice to have. Still, I'll keep it in mind. Give the resources people listed here in the thread and some digging I've done, I may finally have the info I need to go from just using Carrara as a modeller to using it for full blown scenes. It would be nice to be able to make full use of the software for once! Thanks for everybody's help. I really appreciate it! Helen