Thank you folks for all the nice comments... apparently, the gallery picture never took, I'm going to have to re-upload again... anyway, the rain was done in the following manner... You go into photopaint, paint shop pro, photoshop and draw somethign that looks like a raindrop... Draw a couple of these so that they look like different raindrops... Assign it to a brush... this is easier in Photopaint or Paint Shop Pro.. So now whenever you click you're going to get a different sized rain drop.... Keep clicking until you start getting somethign that looks like rain.... Hopefully you made your raindrops of different sizes so it looks natural... anyway, save that rain scene... Create an alpha mask... Open up Vue... Create a plane... click on the texture editor.. Bring in the rain picture... Then go to transparency, put it to 100%, click on variable transparency, edit, then bring in the alpha pic... Click ok and now size the plane until you see the rain as what you had originally... Position that over the object and you have your rain... :) When doing the rain originally, you may want to bring into Photopaint or whatever a version of your picture, this way you can make sure you make the rain the right size...