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Michael, I wasn't expecting self-illuminated materials to act as lights (though I agree it would be a great feature. I have seen a radiosity renderer for .3DS file that does just that). To try and track down the problem I created a simple scene containing just one sphere, one camera and no lights. The sphere was assigned a simple sel-illuminated material with no maps (the GREEN NEON material from the default 3DS material library). When I rendered this in 3DS it came up the expected bright green but a Rayman rendering of the same scene only gave me a dull green sphere (just visible from the low ambient light level). It obviously isn't picking up on the self-illuminated aspect of the material. I've fiddled with most of the renderer settings without success. Any ideas? Andrew.