I am doing an scene in an industrial setting and need to include a welding affect,intense blue light and shower of blue sparks but am having real difficulty getting it to work.Does anyone have any ideas the best way to do this? any help would be greatly appreciated.

photoshop is probley the best way, using lens flare(s) and glow effects If u only have Bryce then I suggest using a symetrical Lattice and trying to work with that.

Thanx for the reply Sinv-jica :),I may have to end up using photoshop after all but was trying to avoid that if possible,is there no particle effect plug-ins available for Bryce maybe?

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Thanx ill give them a try, probably just what i need:)

Theres no harm in doing some post work, in my opinion your best bet is to go with Photoshop, cause in the end chances are you will end up with a better effect. But thats just me. Tempest

There's no particle effect per se, but you can get the same effect by using a volumetric material. Create a material in the DTE that is in 3-D, using something like the "spots" noise... and set your ambience values very high (so that it glows). Play around with it enough, and you should be able to achieve the effect you want. Be prepared to spend plenty of time tweaking it, though :^)