About the bricks: maybe you should "tile" the texture in the shader you are using. About the lantern. Booleaned objects have new geometry and the original operand (?) disappears. This is unlike Bryce. Unfortunately the new object created in C3 will not retain its old uv mapping and this will have to be recreated. I think your problem lies in this. I hope someone has a more lucid explanation but maybe this will help. Ed