haha thanks everyone.

okay so i'll just list some then
and i can acknowledge they sound like noobish questions, but i get so confused on these, and there's not much information on them!

- why don't my models cast shadows, even though they have the shadow flag set?
- how on earth do you implement shaders, without bringing in all the template code?
- and should it be as hard as tutorials make it out to be, to just get an actor to follow a path at a predefined point?

i'm trying to use as little template code as possible, and am running 70.05 pro.
thanks!