you can also study daffy's sun flare object/material. -- Oops. Laurie's made some wonderful toys for us, but in this case, the sun flare material was made by Silverbranch. It can be found on the Room With A Vue site (if you can reach that site), or you can try checking her own site because I think it might be there, too: http://www.pagangraphics.com/vue/ulthm.htm