hey all,

Recently I started working with maya for a school project. The primary reason for this is because all my class mates are using 3dmax and im using a mac so this option wassnt availible to me.
I desided to use the Maya 8.5 personal learing edition and learing trough lynda.com video tutorials provided by my school (yay )
Although most of the options in the PLE seem to work exacly the same and im not to bothered by the bigass watermarking atm there is a thingy that is bothering me atm.

everytime i open one of the files provided by lynda.com they seem to look different then in their videos. In wireframe they look the same but when i hit my '5key' for Smooth Shading All the things just look either strange or a bit off.. I often find myself needing to click items multiple times to even make them display a little bit of detail..

PLZ help..

here are 2 pictures of what it is suppose to look like and what it is looking like at my screen

https://pic14.picturetrail.com/VOL495.../278646770.jpg
https://pic14.picturetrail.com/VOL495.../278646767.jpg

Thnx in advance for helping me, i rly appriciate it!

marek piepers