Ok, here's a test - something that I've been thinking will likely be the first time in production that light effects become an issue - how would you do those light effects in the rain? In the past I would do rain with a series of curved transparent sheets in between the camera and the scene in which I had a shader that gave a rain like appearance. Now, imagine a car driving in the rain. The spot light end is no problem, but putting a glare or starring effect on the light might get tricky. On the other hand, Carrara might let me do actual 3D rain with the replicator. I could see making one to five drops as very small objects and replicating a few thousand of them into the scene... No idea what kind of memory issue that would cause yet though... but I could build them with a sphere primative morphed in the modeller - and that's something I could not do in Vue. But I'm not sure just yet how I would capture their seeming motion right in a still. Thoughts?

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