one thing you can do is in sapien you can use a light thingy and color everything brighter....i have to go right now so i cant explain it anymore thouroughly
open up 3ds max and make a box and hit m for the texuter editor and go to ur halo dir and find blue lights or red lights under test\tutorial\bitmaps and click that name it example_tutorial_blue_lights! make sure u have the ! if u dont know what i mean pm me and i can make a light for u and send it to u