Hi Mike, woah that is awesome, your pic confused me for a second about why you were showing that photo! :)


> Could there be a way to use a blank white or solid-color vector object in place of the bitmap?

This is fairly difficult because getting a vector object fill means actually joining together numerous different generated pieces and trying to screen out little fragments of things. I don't really have much hope of getting that done anytime too soon.



> Or could there be a way to tell the 'background' bitmap to be white without disappearing
> and showing the outlines beneath?

This one is possible currently by adjusting some lighting settings, just add another one to your lighting presets. The parameters you would set are shown here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3135.3

Basically if the light intensity is turned up very high it will have full brightness everywhere essentially disabling shading.

- Michael