Now, I've already mentioned the problem with animating the phase of a planet and Guitta passed that along to e-on I believe. My next problem is animating textures. I got an animation to work how I wanted it.. once. The file has become unrecoverable and I tried starting over.. I cannot manage to animate the texture again without Vue crapping out. HTTP://www.mindexpansion.org/~cdeacon/anime3.rm This is the animation I got before the file wouldn't load in Vue anymore. As you can see, the small sphere with the "Ashes" texture on it is animated to show a turbulent surface. I basically started with the plain sphere (and texture) at timeline 0. At 6 seconds I went back and edited the material. I went to the Effects tab and selected turbulence and change some values. I think I changed some rotation as well, can't remember. Anyhow, everytime I do that now vue croaks after rendering frame 1. The render window just closes and CPU usage sits at 100%. Thoughts?