heya; about the light: if you put a light in the scene.... it's just a light source, not a real light bulb. in other words, putting a spotlight in the picture won't make a spotlight show up, you'd have to build a spot light model to put the spotlight IN. see? :) what you were trying to do is make a 'volumetric light,' right? (er, haven't seen the pic yet, i should shut up, huh? ;) ) to do THAT, in vue, you need to make a primitive and turn it into light. that is done with the materials, using the transparency tab. if you make the cone fuzzy additive, it will appear to be a non-solid light beam in the picture. (you may have to layer several, vue's additive things are really subtle.)