Fran-- I used "Caribbean Resort" as my base texture. I then fiddled with the settings, and Viola!!! There it is. You can see my settings and results above. Refraction is the key here. It will distort things behind. You can also use this texture to create "bullet time" pix from the Matrix. Metaballs are useful for this. Main problem with this method is that, if you put too many cloaked objects in a row with the camera, Bryce messes up because it can't distort that much, and you just get black holes. I'll start a thread on that; if someone can help me with that, I'll be very, very happy. =)