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Thanks for your response, Don. As it happens, I just got back from visiting my dealer to pick up R4 and try out glow, and noted the very problems you mentioned <<uniform glow that the glow IPAS was incapable of creating>> and <<hard to control>>. It turns out that a luridly self-illuminated material with additive transparency, (50% transp), and 100% outside falloff, and shadow casting and receiving turned off for the glowing object, worked well for my purposes, although the edges were still not as soft as I would have wished. I morphed between the pulse "on" and "off" shapes. Also, this was actually the first .AXP process I have tried … I much prefer having these things be specific object attributes rather than something that is layered onto the scene. My dealer said Digimation is supposedly re-doing the special effects IPAS disc, such that the attributes glow, lens flare etc will be redone as object attributes, and that this is supposed to be out in January. Know anything about this?