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Hi again fellow "sit-in-the-dark-and-make-nice-pictures" dudes. Does anyone know what the technical term is for rendering an object with it's EDGES disturbed by the bumpmap? I have a model making friend who always gives me grief about bump-mapped surfaces that have utterly smooth contours! Don't you just hate those traditionalists! Building things by hand.. BAH! (g). And …. er …. Is it possible/hard etc to write an IPAS that would do this or would that be something which would have to be implimented in the code of the 3DS.exe? Thanks in advance… Glenn Zephyr.