Ren_mem,

Actually, youre right about the cone itself being a raytrace effect. Its just that Eovia must not have enabled the shadow effects of the light cone to be transmitted through transparent materials? If thats the case, it should be easy for their excellent programmers to add this capability.

BTW, If you try and do a nice fluorescent lamp in Vue, then you out of luck, or at least, you will need to find some difficult work-around. Its all about trade-offs.

Dont remember if tS 5 does it or not. I do know that TS 7 seems like a product looking for a niche? TrueSpace has become a really good modeler with a decent rendering engine, but with nothing that sets it apart from, say Hexagon with a decent renderer added. I doubt I will upgrade to tS7 I would just add Hexagon to my tool box (I do think tS is an excellent modeler though).