---------------- On 3/13/2004 3:51:51 PM JEC wrote: i'm not quite sure how to help you drewz. i had a .3ds model that i imported in gmax for practice and to teach myself. i decided to use part of the model (only the sails, since the rest wasn't as complete) and built the rest (the base, the restaurant, textures, add polys and fix some of the sails, etc). i changed the color and opacity for the transparent windows a couple of times, but the bat won't render the building with the new textures, only the original, i changed the lods and tried a couple of other things, and i managed to figure it out, but i couldn't save it at the time and now i forgot how i did it. can anyone help me? thanks for the feedback.---------------- omg!! the sydney opera house looks great!!!