Brian, It means both, attached is quick and cheesy rendition of one of my old scenes with ppowellaa's firefly idea. I created a 20 poly vertex object for the tips. Made the floor the base object for an Anything Grows primitive with 50 strands, set the Preview Mode on the Agro primitive to Full Resolution and then turned off Show base and Show strands. I used Noise Factory from Smart Pack for a length shader along with Shader Ops Stretch, to add contrast. Then because the shadows were a little freaky with plain Anything Glows, I used Anything Glows environment lighting on it's lowest quality setting on the Anything Grows object. Now because grows can quickly generate some real high poly stuff, AG environment lighting will quickly reach it's limits, but in general they will work fine together. Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
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Carrara and LightWave plug-ins