Joshua,
Changing VAR to BMAP did nothing. In fact, I double checked, and you the bitmaps for Bparticl and Gparticl worked fine as defined that way.

I DID find out what the problem was though. I had saved all the BMP files as 16 color files instead of 256 colors.

JCL... Not that I will ***EVER*** make this mistake again, but is there any way you could change the error message on this issue from "Out of memory" to something a little more helpful, like wrong color depth or something?

Thanks!

-WildCat