tell me about it! I was supposed to get a full copy of maya last week but it fell through. I might be getting it soon though, it's kind of 50/50. It's given me quite a bit of confusion, as i'm still not completely sure what it is that I cant do in PLE that you can do in the full version. Until about a week ago I didnt realise I could export texture maps to photoshop. I think it's mostly the rendering side which is locked, I dont know. But I havnt tried doing all the other kind of maps yet, just colour attribute maps, so maybe I can learn more about that and make things look better?