petshoo, It stinks that C bogs down on your system. I haven't had any problems with speed, but I don't work with any really intense scenes. Thanks for the tip on the 5.02 update. It does say it fixes the crashing bug with the Procedural Terrains and Textures. It is a beta version, so I may wait till the General Release to update. GWeb, ZBrush looks pretty cool, kind of looks like a hybrid paint/3D app. I will have to look at it some more... Paul