Zhann,

I sent you a site mail message a couple weeks back but didn't receive a reply.

Jerry

Here's the last two.

I'll send the rest of the cars I modeled in a little while (I'm on dial-up too, so it takes a while.)

As I mentioned, these are copies of my N-gauge set, so a lot of the accuracy is what the manufacturer (Backman) gave the actual cars.  To save costs, they made all the couplers the same (and probably a lot of other parts too.)

I have a locomotive too, but it's on my desktop computer, so I'll have to send it tomorrow.

I've been using CS2 on an AMD 4800 and winXP Pro x64 with no problems.

MS has an advisor program for Vista, which will scan your hardware/software to identify how Vista will work on your system.  Unfortunately, they (MS) haven't seen the need to write an advisor program for x64 systems, which seems strange, since there's going o be a x64 Vista release.

Another thing on power supplies.  The power supply will try to deliver the power your system needs.  So if you have a 600 watt supply but your system uses 290 watts, you really aren't wasting electricity.  A 400 watt supply would work (and cost, operationally, the same.)

It's like using 60 watt light bulbs versus 100 watt bulbs.  The supply will provide much greater power than either bulb will use, but the 100 watt will use more power.

Setting a CRT monitor to turn off after 30 minutes of inactivity will save you some "power money."  You don't need that monitor on while doing those long renders anyway.

This is a photo of a young opossum that I took in our back yard.  I placed it on a 2D plane and then added a cube the same size as the photo with a small depth.  I made the material glass and rendered in Bryce with some front lighting.  I purposely offset the glass to the left and up to show the difference between the photo and the overlaid glass (and the reflection of the light.)