In case you arent on the one list I thought I would re-post some information from Ian Sullivan. "1/5/00 10:56pm Hi all, I finally got out of Carrara Detox ;). Of course Black Tuesday (Antoine's Term) didn't help much either. Anyways, just wanted to say hi and let you all know that Carrara engineering is slowly returning to some semblance of functionality. I finally finished reading all 2000 messages that had accumulated since I went off-line on December 18th. Sorry to hear that some of you are having problems, we'll try to address them as quickly as we can (can't be more specific than that, sorry). Some suggestions I can make for the problems I have seen mentioned often. MAC: Try moving to 8.5.1 or 8.6, we just didn't find alot of the problems under 8.1. I blame myself for not finding some of the more obvious ones, and I was the one who initally suggested going back to 8.1 (sigh). Physics is a pig for memory, keep an eye on your available application memory and if things get tight during physics calculation start hitting the escape key 'til it stops. Save then Quit the app. PC: Stay away from OpenGL/DD, stick with the software renderer it's pretty damn fast anyway you look at it. After launching try minimizing then restoring the app (the little eyeball in the upper right corner to minimize) that may free up some system resources (also known as GDI)."

"Both: Holding down Option(Mac) / (Alt or Control on PC I can't remember which) while you are in a numerical edit field gives you a spin box (arrows that you can click with the mouse to change the value incrementally). I think someone already mentioned it but tossing the prefs file (Carrara.ini or Carrara Prefs) will restore you to factory defaults for most of the UI. Also if the app seems sluggish try turning off the UI Effects in the (surprise, surprise) UI Effects section of the preferences. There is probably some confusion as far as "focus" for a window goes, it can be hard to tell which window is "frontmost" if you have trouble with tools not being enabled or menu commands not working try switching to the Arrow tool and clicking on the window you want to be working in. I know there was some question about hot keys for which view you are in I'm not sure if this is what you are asking but "K" selects each of the current panes sequentially, and "L" toggles between one view and whatever you have selected. Read the READ ME. It has some late-breaking news. I don't know all the answers, or even most of them, I'm mainly responsible for the nuts and bolts of the application environment so please don't start bombarding me with questions, just report them on the web site or whatever the current practice is. That's all for now, keep those bug reports coming. -Ian a.k.a MetaIan"

Thanks for the info! Looks like I just might keep it after all! Spike