It would be nice if this were available to purchase through Renderosity. I don't use PayPal.

WandW;

Thanks for the link. I think that I will be doing so much watching and reading, I might lose track of the doing.

Where did these alligators come from? Oh, yeah, I'm trying to drain the swamp...

I hadn't thought of skydomes. But if I can make my own, that will work nicely for an overall background. I have tons of scenery photographs, mostly 'chromes. Just have to dig them out and scan them.

Read. Dig. Scan. Practice...

Alligators seem to be breeding rather swiftly.

aRtBee;

Ah, yes. Thank you. Very well-thought collection, going to be a big help when I reach an area and have questions. Thank you.

FightingWolf;

**I am now registered at the Poser By Design website. Thanks for the link.
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I wish that I could thank each of you individually for the advice, but there were so many of you responding.

So, Thanks, All!

I will be looking at (absorbing?) a lot of video tutorials. I don't know why I didn't think of that, the tutorials available for D3D are very helpful. Lots of information to retain, though.

I've been hands-on while I read the manual, trying to learn-by-doing. Slow! But, I'll get there.

Oh, markschum? What I mean by scenery is pretty much anything that isn't breathing. I was mostly thinking about structures, interior and exterior, and their surroundings.

Brief flashback:

I was at Digital Corp. in Massachusetts in the early 1970s when a programmer showed me his latest feat: He had written a program that  caused a little 8x8 pixel box to bounce around the screen, changing color whenever it crossed it's own trail. Soon, the screen was a mosaic of different colors.

Forty years ago, THAT was cutting edge stuff! (We saw the first screening of Star Wars- Yes, Han shot first.)

We've come a long way from Fortran and Assembler.

No, I don't know of any way to do it. I've been where you are, and was tempted to send them out to be scanned. The cost, especially if you want to keep the resolution of 35mm, would be truly amazing.

Have you thought of sandwiching them between glass? You might get pesky interference rings, though (Rainbows without unicorns).

I ended up soaking mine in oil and scanning them wet with a glass plate on top of them. It worked very well, didn't harm the negatives (might have helped their lifespan, in fact), but was M.E.S.S.Y!

I used something that an engineer friend gave me, he said that it was an instrument oil. I can't tell you anything more than that.

Good luck and much patience!

Thank you, Stacey.