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
Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
Twitter
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will truely know peace - Jimmy Hendrix
Winner SM VFX Challenge 1
3rd Place SM SteamPunk Challenge (May 2007)