Aleta

Well, the four-patch-approach seems to have done the trick! Thank you very much!

I'm sorry, but I'm such a newbie that I don't understand your advice.

Thank you, everybody! I downloaded the 8.5+ and 8.5++ upgrades, but that made no difference. This is my box. Very simple, and the middle patchwork is made to mimic the simplest kind in the manual. [attachmentid=15028] And then the distortion: [attachmentid=15031] Which interestingly enough was no distortion at my first attempt of catching it: [attachmentid=15030] There might be a clue hidden here, though. The undistorted image was captured in Low res mode, whereas the distorted ones are in PAL D1 (or TGA) resolution.

I wanted to interact some 3D animation with an image, to make an interesting DVD menu. I'm a new user, and found that decals seemed to be my best option. So, while using "snap to grid" I modelled a perfect box, and applied my decal on it. It looked perfect. Until I rendered it. Then there was distortion. The distortion is mainly visible in the upper left quadrant, and may be present only there. And it is _very_ visible. Once in a hundred tries I did not see the distortion, but I didn't do anything different at that lucky shot. I'm even beginning to doubt that it even happened... Is it a bug, or is it me? I'm using A:M v8.5 with Windows XP pro on a pretty powerfull PC, (and A:M crashes constantly by the way. But if that is an upgrade issue, I won't have time to remedy that before the DVD must be finished).