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And VIOLA... you have light beams coming thru the clouds. Looks pretty good too... I'm sure that you can find all kinds of good uses for this little trick and I'm sure that some of you more advanced users already knew about this and could probably come up with a better way of doing it then I did, but I felt I just had to contribute something to this wonderful forum. Oh... and by the way... for those that didn't see the previous message on where to get some good skies, check the Vue Free Area for some and Guitta gave a good link of a collection created by Pascal Mari(Kiki) for Vue 2 that will also work with Vue 4. I included the clickable link in this (hope that's okay Guitta). Hope this helps and let me know if it does! -=> Jim! <=-