Dennis: I tried what the manual said, setting my panel layer to -10 and my view layer to a positive number, and the panel still overlaps. I have version 7.04. My level does have a sky cube - I don't know if this statement, "...when the sky is switched off" says I can't have a sky? or can I turn the sky off on my minimap view?

Shadow: I created a 256x256 TGA w/ a colored border and a transparent background. I used it for the panel bmap, and viola - I could see my minimap view. Thanks.

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