KB: Nope, it was runtime. I doublechecked everything. Anyway, I went back and re-did everything with the same settings from worked fine. Last night, I was working on setting up a shader network for the wave texture as well as the seaspray particles but am going to have to re-do at some point....didn't turn out right. For now, though, I think I'm taking a break getting back into the "Maya Fundamentals" tutorials.