mhcannon,

Thx for the advise...

I have removed the textures and have redone it. and tidied up the cloud particles and lengthed them.

The new texture setup seems to have sorted the issues I faced.

Here is a link to the new animation...

Asteroid 6 (Try not ot watch this in Quicktime as its jerky at the start, use WinMP)

Heres a screeney