No, BB, that little demo image had my old fresnal 'blood water' on it. After reading your suggestion, I applied your opaque orb shader to the puddle with the suggested color, then messed around for about a hour until I got a better shader for the metal on the dagger. I adjusted my lights. I dug up a HDRI image and placed on the Envsphere and did a preliminary render. This is my result. For some people raised on movies, my 'blood' might be too dark. But I await your opinions. I checked freestuff on that Dagger. It's called the Scorpion Dagger, and it's been in my P4 runtime forever, and I see that it's no longer in Freestuff. A shame, this is a great dagger. I'm not quite satisfied with the hilt texture. I used one of BB's wood shaders.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

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Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8