Hm. Interesting. The camera should work from inside a booleaned object--I just tried it on a simple cube-sphere boolean. It might just be that what you have there is too complex a model or file.

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Well... if the first suggestions don't work, I'll definitely try that. Thanks, Gog! :-)

Thanks, Catlin! :-D

Whew! I'm glad I'm not crazy and that the problem really does exist -- in high end apps, even. Thanks, Scott! I'll try your suggestions next time I do anything like this.

Thanks, Teri. :-) It doesn't show up in the image because I left out the fog and haze; I wanted to have fog and haze, but then the transparencies got screwed up. This is so frustrating... I'm trying to render some sample images to show what I mean, but now I can't duplicate the problem I had. The transparencies are now working the way they're supposed to, but when I was working on the image they wouldn't. Does anyone out there know what problem I mean? I don't want to re-render the alien one with fog and haze because it took forever to render it.

The goatee seems out of place for the era, but very nice work nonetheless! :-)

Three times, actually. But who's counting? ;-)

...and here I am, working on 10 gigs. sigh

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A little bit off topic,... My boyfriend once woke up with a start beside me early one morning. I'd been thinking quietly in the dark about getting ready for work, and he'd been dreaming about a plane crash that happened just off the coast. He was really upset about the dream and told me about it, saying that the last time he'd had a dream like that there'd really BEEN a plane crash; then he turned the TV on and got the news channel, which reported on a plane crash just off the coast, less than an hour before that very moment. He has never seen a ghost, though, and he'd very much like to.

The aliens thank you, danamo! :-D

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Ang, I had the same kind of experience when I was in my late teens or early twenties. I was lying in bed looking out of my darkened bedroom into the lit hallway. I thought I saw my sister come down the stairs, but her "head" wasn't well defined, as though she had on a space helmet or a fish bowl. Next thing I knew the figure (who I guessed by then wasn't really my sister) came in through my bedroom door towards my bed, until it was at the side of my bed, looking down at me, head still undefined. I couldn't tell if it was an alien or a ghost, or something else entirely. I freaked out and started kicking at it, but I couldn't seem to move. In a blink (perhaps I was startled "awake?"), the figure was gone, and I was alone in my room, kicking at nothing and frightened half to death.