Okay, here's my biiiig secret for doing transparencies in sketch renders.. (it's similar to Krel's, but with one less step.) Render your figure using the normal renderer. This will give you an image with all of the correct transparencies. Make sure you render in the display window, not to a new document. Then, with the rendered image still showing, under "Display" select "Paste to Background." Once that's done, move the figure(s) out of camera range until there are no actual 3D objects left in the camera view, just the pasted render. Then run the sketch renderer on the pasted image. Works like a charm. ;-> (I tell you, that sketch renderer is good enough to retail as a stand-alone application.) -Nemo