CompuServe Messages

Hi Everyone, I trust you're all well and are gearing up for an excellent Siggraph!! A few questions please…. 1. I can't get my shadow mapped spotlights to exclude vapour. I want to use a raytraced spot on it to get the wispy shadows. Even though I've excluded the vapour object, its' shadow is still blocky. Can shadow mapped spotlights properly exclude vapour?? If so, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?? It's a simple scene and there's absolutely no chance that I'm excluding the wrong object. 2. Has anyone had the problem when network rendering that some of the frames are missing a line or two at the bottom? This doesn't happen everytime, but enough to notice something's up. 3. I'll be uploading a few images which demonstrate a problem we've had a number of times. This is where lines appear across viewports, zoom extents ceases to work, coordinates go screwy and objects disappear but their names are still selectable under Select/Object/By Name. Any ideas how to overcome this prob?? 4. Using the RAIN.AXP I want to render the splashes without seeing the raindrops. Any hints?? 5. Has anyone had the following problem when working in the Lofter: I change the User view to a Right view, then select Rotate/Path and rotate the path 90 degrees so that it is vertical in the Right View. I would now expect in the Top view to see a dot – effectively looking straight down on the path and the Front View should show me a face on view of the path standing up. As soon as I rotate the path and do a Zoom Extents, all three viewports (Top, Right, Front) show me the same thing: A path going from the top of the viewport to the bottom. This doesn't seem correct to me. Is it?? Thanks for any replies.. Andy Roberts BITS Corp. P.S. I'll hopefully be in Orlando from Saturday 23rd for 6 days, are there any parties I should know about/try to crash?!? P.P.S Thank you John for the ticket!! It turned up a couple days ago. I'll pop over to see you on the Syndesis Booth…