Thanks! I strive for clarity and cogency... And to improve my vocabulary! Bill, every othe rpost you make has me going to webster.com. This is excellent, as english is my second language, and I am always learning!But more on the tpoic note, this is great info, Bill, and it is deeply appreciated by all. Thank you for pioneering this night VC business.

>Thanks! I strive for clarity and cogency... >>And to improve my vocabulary! Bill, every othe rpost you >make has me going to webster.com. This is excellent, as >english is my second language, and I am always learning! >>But more on the tpoic note, this is great info, Bill, and it >is deeply appreciated by all. Thank you for pioneering this >night VC business. Well Fabio, I can assure you, that your English is far better than my Portugese! :)So much of VC night lighting remains a mystery to me even still. For example, the SDK indicates that we should be able to use an alpha channel on the diffuse image bitmap (the $dummy.bmp) that will cause the 'lighting' to be controlled by either the LL switch buss or the NAV Lights switch buss, but I've not ever had any success with it!That is does work was proven to me by another VC panel modeler whom I was assisting. He suddenly ZOOMED past me when he 'discovered' this 'trick.'The problem is, I haven't been able to successfully replicate his 'discovery' in my own work, even using HIS bitmaps! :(No one else - that is, of those who actually share their techniques! - seems to have been successful either...

Well, Bill, as much as it may seem otherwise, getting there really IS half the fun...