When you drag out the handle, if it curves the wrong way, drag the handle in the opposite direction.

I look on this partnership with a weary eye. I used Poser 3, and Bryce 3d, and I found them (for me) entirely useless (I also quite disliked their interfaces). I started with Raydream 3d way back when, and moved soon to Raydream St. 5.5. It took some time for me to grow warm to the idea of Carraras interface (which I felt was too gooy and would get in the way), but I have finally done it. There is such a thing as making user interfaces too dumb, but Carrara is on the right side of that issue. These late developments, however, make me weary. The bridge between Carrara and Amapi, made me fear that we will never be getting NURBS and other such powerful modeling techniques in Carrara. The Poser bundle just furthers my fears that Carrara may become trivialized. On the box they refer to Carrara as the: complete, accessible, and productive 3d solution, lets hope my fears are unfounded, that it remains thus by itself, and that the package can scope from serious users, to beginners, with the ease it has done. EMC

May not actually be the problem, but in the first image you have the bump amplitude set at 250%. Bump will fall apart visually for many models at anything over 100% (I often use 10%-25%).

I find that the only features they have eliminated are those very useful ones in the vertex modeler. Such as being able to draw rectangles, ovals, and whatnot directly into the modeler, and not having to muck about with all those settings that you can do better by eye, with snap-to on. Another in the same modeler, is the eliminating of the ability to move and resize meshes with the same flexibility as the "Assembly" room (via the actual coordinace, and size). I used RDS 5.5 for several years, and Ray dream 3d before that, and not having the vertex modeler in Raydream, then having it, then having some nice features added, and some nice features taken away. Well, it is a little frustrating.