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Actually I have a bodged solution to the problem. I delete all lights from the image, set ambient light to maximum, set depth cueing on, rerender the animation using flat shading no antialiasing etc. with an IXP which just dumps out the gun value for each pixel to a file. This only gives 8 bits for the Z buffer but hopefully it will be enough for my current purposes. Of cause all this relies on a linear fall off for the distance cue which I haven't checked yet. It occurs to me that Z buffer information would be very useful when writing IXP's, as one could vary effect based on object depth within the image, maybe an extended pixel type with the additional depth information in a future release. Thanks for confirming that what I wanted to do was impossible it saves me wasting more time on it. Rob@Westwood Studios.