What a luck that I bought the Commercial edition is there a limit on the amount of shaders in this edition? Or can I just 'shade' away?

I think my next stop will be scripting.... I think I'll just build a very basic room and try some things out.

framerate's the only limit. but hey, u'll reach it soon enough, don't worry

The limit is actually that of the video card. Shaders are processed by the video card. Although not entirely certain (about 60%), the higher the fill rate is for your video card, the more pixels can processed by the video card for shaders. For an older mid-range card, about 2 gigapixels is about typical meaning 33 megapixels per frame for 60 fps. As to how many shaders you can have at the most, that depends on how much disk space and memory you have for storing all them, so if you want 1000, go ahead and program a thousand shaders.

As a suggestion, you should read the first part of my signature - it's a very useful tip.

Yeah actually I was talking about your sig with a friend of mine yesterdaynight. We went out and when we came back I showed him what I've been doing the past few weeks.

Both of us are studying to be teachers of English and we were discussing that your sig was actually already taught us by our grammar teacher. Nice that you mentioned it!

But ontopic, here's a stats update for what I am doing. I'm building a simple level in Caligari GameSpace and when I'm done I will import it into WED as a A6 model. After that I'll go check around what I can do with scripting, lighting and shaders.