Thank you all for your kind words.I tried posting them in my gallery here but it didn't want to play, that's why I've linked it to my site. Nick, all I did was create a terrrain, I used "mounds" for that particular one,dug the 'road' out, I flattened it, followed the tute and smudged the edges UP from the road, re- loaded it into vue and added the texture, which was a grass and sand mat mixed until I got it just the way I wanted it, that is to say more sand than grass. I used Bloodsongs RIVER side filter and hey presto!( bloodsongs riverside stuff is in the free section, you just have to search a bit.)