WOW! Very nice effect. I CAN't believe that I was just trying to create that sort of blue ring effect the other day and got nowhere. Can you give me a short lesson in how you did it? I'm trying to create a certain type of sapce drive image.

vdallas: it's all about textures. take a bowl, make it very big, and apply a texture for the blue (or any color you want). then take a texture with fine lines and use it for transparency. make sure you use tranceparency outblocked (or similar expression, in german it's called 'transparentes ausstanzen', it's the second from above).it's in the rollout-menue when you click the triangle just left to the first texturefield in the materialeditor. then move the camera inside the ball and turn off all the sky's elements. well, you also need light inside the big bowl. that's it. hope it helps. thx