I'm still here, and thanks. I used an old version of lightwave, v5.6, to do the renders. It's up to version 9 or 10 now, but I'm still happy using the old program. Digging my heels against progress, I suppose, which is really odd for me, but they just seem to make the program less user friendly with each new version, and I know how to do everything with v5.6 without any manuals. Almost anything I can imagine, I can create, but it probably won't look photoreal like modern programs can output. So it's just a hobby. I used to make fully animated instruction manuals for constructing and installing window screens before I started writing.
Want to see some of the pictures I made using lightwave 5.6?
Here's a link to where I posted some computer modeling pics on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref...2&id=645712455