"They missed! But,...They never miss?" Ambassador Delenn. A Shadow Cruiser takes a shot at the Whitestar, during Captain Sheridan's first encounter with a Shadow ship. The Shadow ship is textured using a variety of textures: Flagstones.itx- set to black, with no colour variation; Wormvein.itx, also, set to black; and Marble.itx, set to a bright yellow. Under these was spherically mapped a brush created using a stated Plane, that I had wrapped around to form a sphere. The plane was scanline rendered, with Clouds.itx applied, and the sky colour set to black, and sky filter set to 0,0,0. This brush was used as a Brightness map. The base colour of the cruiser was made slightly off-white, with Specular set to pure white, hardness around 200, Shine 28, and Index Of Refraction set at 1.5. The flare, for the beam was created using a disk, and then the central point was displaced in the Y axis, and then the object was extruded a few unit. It was made a fog object, and SSLensFlare.itx was applied. (Although, it wasn't until after I first did a big scanline render, that I noticed that disk was in the wrong position!! Arrgggghhhh!!) The beam is two tubes, one inside the other. The outer one is a fog object, with Caustics2.itx applied, to try to get the effect of scintillation. (Not very noticable, at this range, however.) The Whitestar is Keir D'arbys excellent model, converted from Lightwave format. Scanline Rendered, on my trusty, rusty Amiga A1200, using Imagine 5.0.