"i guess the answer to that one would be Mac compatibility" Uh, don't think so. Two button mice are common, IME, on the Mac side, and there's a standard (Command-click) workaround. Don't blame us Maccies! :^D

If I understand which slope and cliff you mean, I see nothing wrong. The cliff above is the history of that material. These rocks are eroding fairly rapidly (in goelogic time) to produce such steep, rough cliff faces. The slope I think you are talking about looks to me like a regolith slope derived from mass-wasting of the cliff above. Because this is a tropical environment, such slopes are rapidly covered by vegetation (Hawaii has similar terrains, as does the Sawtooth Wilderness (Idaho, IRC) and many other locations. Such terrains are generally produced by rapid uplift accompanied or followed by rapid erosion, though they are also dependent on the type of rock. While pure fractal terrains are usually geologically questionable, they are a good starting point, and Vue is an excellent program, IMHO. I wish I had more time to use it!

I assume these are fractally generated and there are at least three terrains in the picture. Pretty good, especially for fractal terrains, which are generally unrealistic. Some things look odd, but I think they have more to do with perspective and composiion. For example, some of the vegetation on the far peak looks too large for the distance, and on the far upper right, there is what looks like an overhang (might be an overly large tree). Such deep overhangs are inconsistent with the way the rest of the rock is weathering. What is the rock type you are trying to model? Is this an actual place? Do you have a pic with the atmospheric effects removed? Properly applied atmosphere and lighting can hide a multitude of defects.

Unfortunately, I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Products/vue5infinite/images/CerroVerde.jpg on this server.

Glad to help! In real ilfe, I am a geologist. In my experience, rock is even stranger than I can imagine... ;oD

"Sandstone" is one of nature's garbage cans: it can have anything in it, be almost any color that occurs in nature, and be any thing from just barely indurated to well indurated (indurated is geologist for "made rock-like"). There are more different kinds than you can shake a stick at, and even more geological names for them (subgrawacke, anyone?) Some sandstones, as LW states, are highly friable. Some (such as that found on the north shore of Lake Superior) have to be cut with an oxygen lance. These look good for a well indurated sandstone with a fine grain size.

These are good for "recent" regolith of massive, well indurated sandstone, with the exceptionof the large one on the left. Sandstone rarely breaks into cylindrical forms. Freshly broken fragments are angular and tend to be wider subparallel to the bedding planes, often with relatively straight faces at angles to the bedding planes.

"I'm more of a creative type person and enjoy "making" things. After 5 years I got bored with PSP and decided to try Poser, but most of the time I feel like I'm playing "dress up barbie" and it's not keeping my interest :( If I knew more about what I was doing and understood poser more, I'd leap at trying to make textures for things. I just don't understand all the files or how to save those types of files for other people to use." Then learn! There are an abundance of tutorials, here and elsewhere. Texturing isn't hardjust finickydon't be intimidated by the complexity. If you really want to make clothes, and other things, a decent modeling program is necessary. Real creativity does not come from a cookbookjust ask any chef!

This is a "known bug" that, as far as I know, was never fixed in any Vue 4 version on the Mac. Drove me nuts until I found outyour render actually completed. To see it, hit the "View last render" button. To avoid the whole problem, just set your render preferences to "Render to screen" at whatever size you want.

At least on the Mac version, you can select the folder and press the delete key.

So there is something about DAZ stuff that requires it to be in the main runtime?

Go to DAZ. Click on "People" on the left side bar. Click on "Morphs" Victoria 3.0 Body Morph Pack and Victoria 3.0 Head Morph Pack are the 8th and 9th items listed. Or just search on these names.

Oui, tres Francais! :P Actually, perhaps it's Europeansee below. I'm afraid I have to sympathize with you on this one. I think I now have the serial numbers for the last veggies I bought. Didn't take long to get the first, wrong ones (one business day) but it took several trieson their partto get what might be the right ones too me. (I haven't had the courage to tryyou realize how upset I'm going to be if these don't work! That being said, they are a small outfit, and they are generally pretty responsive to complaints, especially compared to some who shall remain nameless. AND they have the grace to apologize when they really have screwed up. They are certainly no worse, at worst, than many. Now for the European angleMaxon (Deutschland, a.k.a. Germany) does something similar with C4D: you get a temporary serial number with the software that's good for about three months, while they snail mail the permanent numbers to you. You can also phone them and get the numbers sooner. I wish e-on would adopt the same system for their downloads, but they DO email the numbers too you, usually within one business day, at least in my experience. While this can be frustrating, it's not unreasonable. But I can't help feel that the paranoia is not justified for small-ticket items. But cheer up! This is nothing! You want annoying, just look at what Congress is up to! >}:^{D>

How much memory do you have? Other than the problems I've mentioned, it seems stable as the average continental shield.

More stable? Big dealthe only stability problems I've had are with the vegetation, specifically the two that crash the program and trying to load the additional plants.