Hi Jim, have you messed around with the new contour rendering in Modo yet?

That allows you to include some wires from the edge structure in MoI in your rendering, see here for an example:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3926.1

There's a patch for MoI v2 to enable LWO export that is ready to have contours applied, see here for the patch:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3926.4

That engine might look pretty cool with just a very faint contour rendering on it, could maybe kind of preserve some of the part detail in the glowing parts.

- Michael