Ah shucks! Ok then. "Post and be damned". BrOken - I originally gave it a slight transparency but it takes down the boldness of the motif, so I rendered it solid until I make a Transparency map. Also, a freaky thing with Poser is that you can't get the shadow of the figure projected on the back of the screen to be visible (via the transparency) on the front. You just see the figure through the screen illuminated by the light coming through from the front. The best that can be done (that I can do) is to light the front but not the figure, and then use the figure's silhouette as the shadow. Poser really is funny about transparencies, I had exactly the same problem you mention with the lightly transparent paper walls in a teahouse, that should let in less light than an open doorway - like hell they do. The workaround I'm using is to render overlit and underlit, and then find the balance using layers in Photoshop. - Just had an idea, the transparency values in the render window only permit light to pass or not. Perhaps the transparency map will let you set how much light passes or not - you wouldn't have seen it with your louvres because you used b and w bands. Off to try will post result.