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>>What about smoke, fire-flames<< As Terry stated: "All nice 2D effects, that can (or will soon) be found in Photo-shop style plug- ins.. Not really 3D stuff usually." However, it can also be accomplished with 3D particle systems. Actually, I _was_ thinking about smoke. The only problem with the file-based (as opposed to API based) particle implementation in a 3D rendering system is that the scenes get _very_ large _very_ fast. For example, I'm working on a snow/rain particle system at the moment, and to get a nice 'looping' snowstorm effect over a 12 x 12 x 12 unit area took about 2-3k polygons. That was a very basic and preliminary test, but you get the idea, right? Anyways, the effects you mentioned are 'do-able', and I'll really consider the smoke… Great suggestions. Thanks for your input! Rob