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Hi: I'm working on a project at work where I'm modeling an inductively heated block of carbon that goes from cold (a semi-shiny black) to a brignt incandescent yellow color. I'm doing a morph from the black to an intermediate glowing red to the final yellow color. That works fine but… When an object gets that hot it should emit light, and that light should show up on the nearby objects. I can get the glow in the material itself by making it self-illuminating but I'm having trouble getting the light to look right on the other objects. I've used an omni light that changes color along with the carbon block, but without shadow casting light ends up in strange places. My current option is to use a set of 5 spotlights set up to just barely overlap. It's running now (so I haven't seen it) but I can't get it to run with ray-traced shadows (I get a page fault on the first field). Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get the effect that I need? Thanks, Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 25-Sep-1995 @ 20:42:18 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62