Mark --
Heh.
I totally hear you about "breaking it down to smaller pieces". This is just where -- for this project anyway -- the sweet spot seemed to be.
The whole piece actually has a second virtual location, with another 30 or 40 seconds of 3d LW stuff, which I'm doing the same way.
If it was bigger I could definitely see how separate .lws scenes for each actual scene would start to make a whole lot more sense.
Thanks for the LightNet pointer! Fortune willing, I'll work on something big enough to need it sometime

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