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Hello Rock, I just tried your double vision problem and it is easy to do with video post and a transparancy mask. No IPAS needed. – Decide the shape and size of the central area of normal vision and build a transparancy mask. Make it pure white in the middle and 50% grey outside the middle. Make it the same resolution as your rendered images and things will be easier. You probably want a soft edge between the two areas. This is very easy to do in a program like Photoshop. The image can be saved as an 8-bit GIF. – Render an image (or animation) to be used to demonstrate the effect. – In Video Post, create two entries in the queue, both with the same source image (or animation) used as a bitmap. In the first entry, click on OFFSETS and add a little offset. I used an X-offset of 4 with a 256×256 test image. In the second entry, use a zero offset. Click on the second entry's ALPHA slot and set your transparancy mask image as an RGB INTENSITY MASK. The Video Post queue should now look like this: IMAGE.TGA IMAGE.TGA RMask/I When you render your image (or animation), it will have a normal image in the center and a double image outside. There are probably many ways to do this, but this is the first one I thought of. Good luck! JKJ

Rock Here's a possibility. Render the clear image or animation and use it as a background image. Map that same image to a transparent, flat object larger than your scene and scale the mapping to give the double vision effect. Place a flat matte object to clear the central 30 degree viewing area by allowing the background to show through. Haven't tried it myself, but…… Good luck TedB !^NavFont01F0007MGHHH439DF3