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>But, no matter how I treat the bitmap that's mapped onto the monitor, there's still a little palette flash as >the animation loops, so the effect doesn't quite work. What palette are you using for your rendering? Are you using Medium, or a custom palette? It sounds to me like this might be your problem (as opposed to the actually mapping). For a monitor image, I wouldn't use a spotlight, but just a self-illuminated (100%) material mapped onto the screen. I have done this a lot and it works just fine. > But I suspect that it's probably really tough to have a mapped image look exactly like a first-generation >rendering. For the opening of my show I had a giant screen (kind of like the one in Times Square) representation that showed clips of the show as you zoomed down the street. The clips were TGAs grabbed from live video, and in the final animation (rendering to video) you could not tell that it wasn't a TV screen. Is this the kind of effect you're looking for?