Hi NEW to Carrara. I cannot get it to render jessie's strand based hair with ANY global lighting selected- indirect and/or skylighting. I've tried standard res jessie with default maps, as well as hi res jessie. I've created new Pz3's in case of file corruption. Tried shutting off ray tracing options, etc. As soon as the render gets to the hair- boom! Down goes Carrara. It renders the body fine- but the hair- no. Although it sometimes will render a small portion. With OUT any global selections it renders the strand based hair just fine. Transmapped hair renders fine WITH all global selections. Does this happen constantly in the release version? BTW. I'm on a dual core G5 mac w 1.5 gigs of RAM, OSX 10.4.5 Mainly, I'm wondering if this is a demo issue- or a full version issue as well! Thanks! Eric Thinking about a purchase- but only if global works! I'm a fan of realistic lighting- HDRI by preference!