I'm sorry for not being specific enough. Yes, I meant sprites. I think what I need to do, to acheave the effect I am looking for, is to do......

crap... whats it called....

...bump, no.........

...I want an image to appear 3d. As if it actually has a form, not just an image. Maybe I should just extract a heightmap from it and make it into a model that uses a pixel shader?

ADD: I'm going to check out sphere's shaders now... try out the demo. I just need to convert the scripts to work with 6.4.05...