When inside the Vertex Modeling room..... Select ALL... Hold CTRL and ALT at the same time..... Click on a vertex of the Object which you wish to REMAIN intact. It willl LIGHT UP YELLOW when you have done this correctly. You will now have Boolean subtract available to you. Your next step is to write the guys at Eovaries a letter and blast them for having overlooked this in the manual, even though it was mentionned to them back when they worked for Metacretons 5 years ago. Is there some reason you cannot use a bump-map to accomplish what you are doing ? to what level is your camera going to be viewing this object. (just a thought) good luck

Very good AZ... All answers correct... You get to move on to the final round ! :)

I am as certain as I can be that Eovaries will will be releasing Carrara 1.0.1b in two weeks. This is Carrara FIXED and NOT Carrara 2. I am not sure what people are expecting from all of this. I personally just want to put it through the paces of things which didn't work and verify that they now DO work. It is rebranded and supposedly fixed. This means that when you boot up the "2nd patched" version it will no longer have that Metacreations logos, links etc anywhere within it. This doesn't mean that you are going to find yourself with this really neat new tool, chamfer, bevels, bones, caustics etc etc etc... It simply means you "might" get what you paid for nearly 2 years ago. I would have to guess that this will be available as a DL from their "never updated site" in 2 weeks. In the meantime... back to max.

I get an error when trying to run your "attempt" from the media player. (too tired to look at what might be causing the trouble... will try again tomorrow maybe)

Oh well.. I am going to try contacting them next week. Seems like a bit of bait and switch to me. Thanks for your reply :

Off the subject....I am kind of curious about metastreaming. I used to do it in RD5.5... and now have Cararra. I have seen that metastreaming has changed in the past year or so.. requiring a keycode to enable. (or something of the sort) Answer me this if you would; Is the original metastream plug-in still on the MetaCreations site ? So, if a person goes to my site and doesn't have the plug-in, is it still there. If this is not so... I think we have just found the breach in contract that Cararra users want to have to assemble their little civil suit upon them. I didn't BUY these products to create and then put onto the web to LEASE a contract to enable their use. This was NEVER part of the original agreement when I purchased the MetaCreations products line which PROCLAIMED nothing pertaining to my having to purchase a key to use this plug-in on my websites. I use FLASH as well.... If MacroMedia were to come along and say , "Oh, thanks for buying our product you now have to PAY to use it on the web if you are a business.",.. Well, if that were the case, they would be out of business faster than the BBB could send out an investigative team. Well, maybe I am wrong. Anyone know what I am rambling on about ?