thats interesting?? is that still the case if he wants differant intensities?? say 1 on a couple and .3 on a couple ect.

maybe area lights would be best for sort of imitating global illumination??

i meant writtting a PP expression for the particles (lights) via the pp render type,

not the AE simply for lights, but expressions for the instanced objects, in this case lights, but this was just a guess, i am having too much trouble with the computer (and my head) to delve too deeply into i just now. feel like im going crazy at the moment.