Thanks for the replies. I switched to another laptop (different design, with only 768 MB RAM) and it works.

I'm feeling reasonable positive that the video driver/card in my machine is somehow to...

I've finished a scene in Maya 8 and rendered it at 600x400 until now.

Now I need it rendered at 4500x3000 but every time I try my machine bluescreens. Any idea what might cause this? My machine...

Very impressive for his age :)

Neostrider,

ok, you caught me there. Not the best choice of words.

Btw, this is for a single still, not an animation.

Pretty much everything but the mermaid and rock will be CG.

Still looking...

I'll have to look into that :)

Thanks, I thought that the object which appeared was the sphere but it was only some sort of shader attribute. Working now :)

I am trying to import this model into Maja:
http://gunpoint-3d.com/model-PBoat.html

but if I translate it into .obj format using Qick3D Pro and import it, I get the message that a single mesh was...

ok, after getting zero response I went ahead and bought a model in .obj format but when I import it into maya, I get the error message that a single mesh was created, which makes it useless.

...

how do I do that?