ahh, thank you rob...i know it's annoying when people don't look things up...in internet time i belong in a nursing home lol.... appreciate you posting this.

so a threshold 0.999 would cut off sooner than 0.001 making the former a lower quality lightmap?

glad to know i can cut it off early as in sapein ( ~ - save). i might've guessed that part from the message tool gives...never tried it.

thanks again.