you can do it like this too.....load object, go to material editor, click your object color and change to black, then click your hightlight color to yellow (for example), and your reflective color to yellow, and then change your ambient color to red (just for example), then set your Tranparency min to 100, set Transparency max to 5 and set your Falloff to 10, and render. Or you can set your Transparency min and max to 85 and leave your falloff alone and see what happens. Sharen