I like the designs a lot. The only thing to me is the fighters textures are a 180 from the textures on the huge cruiser and seemingly don't match. But scifi is scifi.

Yes they are. It was for artistic effect. It has nothing to do with any Sci-Fi story or reason. If they were a similar design and texture they would not catch the eye. That was the only reason. I was actually testing Layers in Illusion. The fighters are on top of the fighter rocket trails, which are in turn on top on the main ship.

very nice scene evler, nice details on the ship. The overall scene has a nice setting. Is the planet just a pic in the background? Keep up the good work.

Thanks. The Planet is a full 3D Model. The Clouds model can be animated separately fom the world model. I created the textures in Photoshop 5.5. The Planetary halo shader is an Animation Master plugin written by Yves Poissant.

Oboy I hope eylerl doesn't hate me 4 doing this but I'm new and there is no AM forum - First - I really like the image. Second - can someone please tell me why my toolbars don't stay? I clicked the option under "Customize" but when I 'close' the dialog box so go my toolbars Third - Where can I get that kewl Planetary halo shader? Oh yeah - I D/L the 9.0l patch and still have problems. Thank u all very much

dkirk. I recommend posting to the A:M email list. I do not use V9 for a number of reasons (I use 8.5P). The email list can be found here: http://www.hash.com/support/maillist.asp As for the planetary glow shader, it can be found here: http://www.micro-intel.com/users/ypoissant/Downloads/Planet-Glow.htm