kissAble, LOL exactly my feeling when I started messing around with modelers. Albeit without the stiff drink, I was only 15 years old, then. ;) Modelers have become a lot more user-friendly over the bast 12 years or so, but nowadays, people request this and that and THIS feature and why doesn't it do THAT just like that other modeling app . . . hence: lots and lots of features that somehow need to be integrated in a GUI. Very difficult, and we guys have the additional problem that Vue's user interface is about as good (i.e. easy) as it gets. Hence: Lots of work to get used to a new modeling application, but it's well worth the effort. Good tuts are another problem. Most tuts are, as you have oserved correctly, written for people with at least a basic knowledge about 3D graphics. To understand these basic concepts, practically any 3D beginner's tutorial will do. Once you've understood what polygons, vertices, extrusion and so on are, it's easier to apply this information to tutorials aimed at the specific modeling application you're interested. Be sure to give real-time 3D tuts (for games or graphics cards) a shot, too--it may not be completely applicable to rendering, but the terminology is the same and should give you an idea what to expect. Should you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to ask them here--unless, of course, it's considered off-topic in the Vue renderosity.com forums. ;) ta, -Sascha.rb