I'm just tooling around with the demo, trying to decide whether or not I want to invest (I'm regretting my purchase of Bryce 5, and looking for an alternative). For what it's worth, I love the Vue interface (a lot less wasted space than either Bryce or Carrara, my other 3D programs of choice), and I like the renderer (it creates images with an almost painterly quality--not your typical 3D fodder). I have a few questions for those of you who are familiar with the program, however: When I paste textures (proceedurals or textures) to the ground plane, I get strange, swirly results (it looks like the correct texture, but all swirled around). This seems to happen regardless of which mapping mode I choose. Is that normal? Is it possible to use a texture as a bump map? I see controls for creating proceedural bumps in materials, but no texture import. This would be a major problem, since I use images to create bumps quite often.