Here's an image and the settings that I used to generate it. The particle size is 0.08 and they are diamonds in shape. I've also applied anything glows to particles and that can make a big difference (see my 4th of July Cone image in my gallery). Hope this helps as a starting point. I used C 1.1 for this example and it may take a little bit of tweaking to translate it into 2.0 which has a somewhat different set of dialogue boxes. Hope this helps! -Kix

-Kix