You know, ages ago people were requesting that I write a tutorial on Alpha Meshes. Well, I wasn't very good at getting them to work right AND the process that I used was very time consuming. NOW, the process is much easier and I've found ways to make it work without assigning each vertice manually--mainly because the regroup feature doesn't vape all assignments any more. Wes H is such a genius! Anyway, I'm on a alpha mesh mania. All of the meshes that I wanted to do forever, but at first weren't feasible or secondly, I didn't have time to assign several hundred vertices! lol So, look for more alpha meshes from me.