I will undelete your previous posting. AzChip has answered to a lot of the concerns I was thinking about in your image. What you can do is mix a two value sliders with something like a wave function in both the highlight and reflection channels. This may help you some on the glass issue. As far as the floating thing goes, you will have to move on to more advanced lighting techniques to get the look you're after. GI rendering will be your best bet or you might be able to pull this off with environmental lighting. Otherwise, you're just as stuck as the rest of us. Good suggestions by everybody else on the glass issue. AzChip has suggested the ultimate solution. -Kix

-Kix