Hi, Guitta - actually, you answered my question enough to get me moving again. I had a couple of directional lights in there! I've used your advice to get everything black, and switched to all spotlights. As you can see, my latest results still need more work, but there's an improvement... I'll just have to devote some time to studying 'lights' in the manual, then do more experiments... I'll get there. Thanks! John