Thanks alot for the link and your help i will try that right now, also the real GI does it cost money? do i download it from somewhere? thanks for your reply i would greatly appreciateit if you repplied again lol thank you... i have just wrote in... C:/Users/[computername]/Documents/maya/scripts/GIJoe.lights i have changed all of the slahes to '/' now im loading up maya. i have just typed GI_Joe in the mel script and the GUI pops up... i click 'go create' and..... grrrrrrr it still says 'Error: File not found' what the hell am i doing wrong!!??!?!!? i dont know what im doing wrong but can you please tell me more about this GI in mentalray please. Also anyone please try and help me.