I'm just getting into the intricacies of Vue8 (after using the PLE for a while to assess Vue's possibilities with Poser).

I'm trying to create an alpha plane linked to the main camera to create rainfall across an image. Image1 is a preview of the scene - a wet night in London.

Image 2 is the rainmap that I've installed in an alpha plane - as you can see, at 1000x1000, it's quite detailed.

When I use this alpha plane in the scene I get the result as per the preview in image 3. As you can see, the rain drops are few and huge and it's apparent that only a small part of the original image is being used.

I've tried all ways I can think of including: scaling the material in the Object Properties Panel, reducing the size of the alpha plane in Edit Object and reducing/tiling the image in the Material Editor but I always get the same result.

I've even tried setting up an ordinary plane with the image/transpareny info on and it won't show within an image at all!

Have I missed something or is this a bug?

Any suggestions gratefully received as this is driving me crazy!