Hi Robert, In fact I did. There were times, on another model when I moved certain vertex points Carrara froze on me and gave me a strange "unable to create sphere object" message or something like that. I lost several hours of work once. So now I save very often. Make sure you download the latest patches from Eovia. I'm sure its a bug but I am working around it. Best of luck. Ben

You will do great with the VM. Once I got over the learning curve I found it to be pretty straight forward. I'm actually working on a texture for my portrait now. Texturing is a very interesting process in itself. Ben

Hi Pinklet, Thank you. This portrait took me approximately 6 hours. However it is a modification of a previous generic mesh that took about 20 hurs to model. Once you have a basic head mesh it is fairly easy to adapt it to new similar characters. Ben

Thanks for all of your comments. Ben

Thanks Looniper! After a quick try it seems this method works. The only thing that I noticed was that the original "whole" Vertex model stays behind after spawning props. I was able to delete the "whole" model in the Hierarchy Editor and the grouped parts stayed behind. Regards, Ben

Thank you Dr. Geep! Wow. Your tutorials look great.

Thank you xantor!