I had the same problem, this is gonna sound strange but it worked for me. Undock the shader browser and redock it, and presto... maybe. It worked for me. I have no idea how or why. I stumbled across it accidently when I got frustrated and slung the mouse.

Oh, damn, now you got me wondering again!

I got six too! And immediately thought someone had my e-mail password and was trying to get my renderosity password too! I'm glad you guys posted the messages before I got here, else I'd still be paranoid.

From the 2D world. Way back the CorelDraw suite included a 3D app based on RayDream, they called it CorelDream, I think that CD 6, it caught my imagination and I started looking for other apps. Here I am.

Oh, sorry you misunderstood the question. It's not about shaders but objects themselves. Like in Bryce you can change a primitive sphere to a primitive cube. I need to change some splines from one master spline to another without adding a bunch of new master splines. From your earlier post earlier post I was able to select a bunch of the splines at once and switch to the model room, select new master and it changed all of them!! and that's really cool, it changed all of the selected splines to the new master spline. but there's some others that I didn't select I'd like to tell them to use master spline b insted of master spline a the same way you can do it with shaders.

Cool, the first method worked. I have a question about the second. What do you mean by change others one by one? Is that creating new masters for each or is there a way to apply the new master object to each of them?

Opps, man I wich we could edit posts. What I want is something like the Properties Browser where when you select an object you can change the shader through a drop down menu, I'd like a drop down menu for the Master name that appears right above the Shader name/dropdown menu.

Not exactally what I want. I have a couple hundred duplicates let's call their master 'master a' I want to click on one of the objects edit a new master and call that 'master b'. Now I want to click on half of the objects and tell each one to use 'master b' insted of 'a'. Anyway of doing that?

I've been using them for about a year and a half now, they're great! Only complaint is that it took me a while to add all the folders to Carrara's shaders browser, but that's not Clints fault. I hope Eovia will someday add the ability to add all subfolders in a group that would be great. In response to shaders should be free... many are, in fact I have several from Bremmer, Tony Lynch, Litst, the Danscape shaders, some from Digital Carvers and maybe LHS, some I picked up at egroups, and a lot that I copied from screenshots posted here. I have found all of them extremly useful working with my own shaders, sometimes it's difficult to decide how to go about creating a shader and I'll disect one that I already have to see how it's done. HEY CLINTH, is the screenshot you posted above of the RD version, I don't have one called "Frog Skin" is it the same as the Green Lizard shader, or is it one that didn't make the conversion?

Right! Ok, thanks.

Wow, that's really cool, but how do you set the options per shader? I can't find a way to do so. Thanks

Your're right, it's not working. Sorry man I didn't understand at first. Yeah, I'm getting the same behavior. Let's hope someone in here has an answer. Later

Ok, ok, ok if I save all textures internally it works. What I don't understand is why before (I think I was using the defaul "Use local settings" in the save dialog") that it would save some but not others? And what does "Use local settings" mean? I understand external, I understand internal, but local? At first I thought perhaps it refered to some setting in Preferences, but I find none. Does "local settings" refer to "last used" or what? I'm am throughly confused.

Sweet, thanks for the info!

I wish I could offer you some advice. I'm on NT 4 myself, but I don't have the problem. I don't know if it makes a difference, but did you apply the patch over a fresh install of Carrara 1.0?