Well, off the top of my head, you have 3 choices... 1 You can either create a lightning-like figure in a modeler (like Rhino, or whatever), bring that into Vue and then apply some of the glow materials and play with it in Vue 2 you can get a picture of lightning, fix it so that you can bring it in as alpha plane and put that in the picture... 3 Just do the lightning in post.. I understand that the plug in Xenofex for image processors creates very easy and cool lightning... My own 2 cents on these kinds of situations is that no program out there is designed to create everything within it... That's why 3d studio max, lightwave and such have plug ins... And life's too short to be dealing with the limitations of any program, when ther's another program out there that can do it easily... :) So, I would look outside of Vue to create lightning... :) But then again, somebody may have figured out how to do lightning in Vue... :) There's always that possibility...