In article <1358156904.76010.YahooMailNeo at web142501.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> writes: OK, then you need to decide which "look" you want to reproduce. Are you specifically trying to reproduce the visual look from REND386, or just using that as a reference point? This is trivial. This is also trivial. From looking at the URL you gave for [4], it's just picture flipping a bunch of pictures taken at different viewpoints relative to the object. You don't even need a graphics card for this, it's just picture flipping. Why webgl, are you trying to make something that is browser based? Shader based graphics cards are the norm for the past decade, so hardly only available on "newer" graphics cards. OGL even provides a software fallback. However, don't assume that because people are showing you how to do something in a shader that the only way to do it is in a shader. The last generation of fixed-function pipeline cards (i.e. 10+ year old cards) were capable of a variety of effects if you were creative in how you use the hardware. I would agree that it's simpler to develop the effect now with a shader than to try and figure out complex multitexture fixed-function effects. If you get something like ATI's RenderMonkey or NVidia's FX Composer, you can evaluate the shaders interactively on a model without having to do edit-compile-test cycles. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>