Moonbow, You might want to Instant Message Pidgy, but it looks like he went into photoshop to create the aurora effect in the lower right hand corner. Then opened Bryce, created a 2d plane and applied the photoshop picture using the materials editor. Here is a link to a brief explanation on how to apply the picture: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1083151 The little red dots above show what the settings should be to get the best effect. Play with the materials editor, it's a lot of fun. Lin