Yeah, I know it's MD. I recognised the texture. :-) But it's not obvious. As to the volumetric, search the forum for Rochr's post on lights. He posted two of his transparency maps for volumetrics, the faking of. Or you can render without volumterics and then use a transparency map to fake the light in Photoshop. Hmmm, I did post that here somewhere, but I don't remember whether I explained what to do.

-- erlik