One suggestion. If you have Lightwave 7 (I forget if this works in 6). Go to the transparency layer of the tree and copy that texture. Go to object properties/render for the tree and click on clip map. Paste the texture you copied, making sure anti-aliasing is off. Use that texture and delete the transparency texture that you originally copied from. Why Vue uses uses transparency for the leaves of the tree as opposed to a clipping map is beyond me. It might have something to do with exporting to a pre 7.0 format (Xfrog does the same thing). But doing it this way created renders that take a LONG time. Try it as a clipping map and see how fast it now renders. Also in those exported objects that Guitta posted there are a few maps that are NOT used, They seem be used in the transparency layer of the objects though they don't do a thing. Remove them. I mean what kind of transparency would the land have..or the ground.

Yes Steve only reinstalling the program will make it work again. I tried backing up other files and restoring them with no luck. Could the issue have something to do with the registry perhaps?? And yes I'm logged on as adminstrator here

Steve I did what yyou suggusted and it didn't help. Still had to reinstall unpdate to run program. So perhaps WinXP is doing something screwy to Vue. And it it means anything... Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 1/24/2002 Time: 3:11:18 PM User: N/A Computer: VBUTTARO Description: Faulting application vue4.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.0, fault address 0x00003741.

Ok..this is weird! I installed the beta update and the program ran fine. Closed program and tried running it again later and WinXP brought up error message. Thought something had gone screwy with my system and rebooted. Tried to run Vue again..got an error. Program will NOT run. Decided to reapply the update on a whim. And guess what..now the program ran. BUT the screwy part is that it only ran the first time; casing an error upon trying to run it again. Reinstalling the upgrade allowed the program to run. So what's up? Is the program now screwing up some file everytime it runs??

Well I may have spoken too soon. Can't open application after aopening it up the first time. Might have nothing to do with Vue so I'll have to reboot my machien and see.

I installed the beta update tonite and the program started up OK without a hitch. (sigh of relief). This is running under WinXP Pro. Haven't fully tested the program; but it all appears well