The aura is not being relfected in the reflective shader on the plane. Is there a setting I need to enable to make it reflect? Just wondering. Aeryk

Nope, I've never been able to get that right either. Since the Aura is post render I dont think it knows about the reflection of the object that has the Aura.... If anyone knows how to make this work Im all ears. I figured it was a render engine limitation. You would bring the final image into a paint program and fake it... Clint

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On the 'table' draw a parametric circle underneath the sphere. Then, assign a multichannel shader with everything set to none except the glow channel. Implement a max scaled ripple shader and adjust as required to acheive best aura. Mark

Yes I wish someone could answer that. Is it a rendering engine limitation, or just the way it is? And I will then assume that all post-rendering affects will have there own faults. Do larger packages such as 3DS Max and LIghtwave have the same type post-rendering affects with the same limitations. Tuck

Regrettably, unless you want to pay some serious money, the 'cost effective' packages do not support radiosity or cautics.

Well, Bryce fakes caustics pretty well, but does not support radiosity. Hash' animation master (v 2000: 299$) supports both ;-) Gabi