I was making a scene the other night with the Vue cubes. I inscreased the height on all of the cubes to make them look like pillars. I then applied the stony moss material on them. The pillars had the material on all sides. Here's the problem I ran into: I positioned one of the stone pillars on it's side horizontally, as if it was fallen on the ground. When I did this, the side of the pillar facing up to the sky had lost the moss effect. It looked almost plain actually. Why did this happen? When I turned the pillar so it is vertical, the material goes back to normal. Is this because of the azimuth and all of that nonsense that I do not care about? heheheh If so, I did read a short tutorial around here to someone's site that showed a graphic of all the azimuths but that was a bit confusing. What i want to do is have that material not change when i turn the pillar on it's side. Any ideas/suggestions? TIA!

Select the object (cube), double-click on the material window to open the material editor. There, at top right, select OBJECT SPACE insteed of tha default WORLD SPACE. That's all:-) Guitta

Yup, what Guitta said. Although in Vue 4, it is called Object-Standard, it means the same as Object Space. :)

Ooops! Oh Yes, Thanks Varian.

Duh. I can't believe I didn't think of that! It's always the simplest things. Thanks!

Yes, audiopod, most of the problems we can have (except bugs)) are the evident little things that we didn't see... And when you see, you want to crush your head on your keyboard :-)