Ahh.. Zahnn that's what Erlik meant; I thought he meant that the ground floor was LARGER than the rest of the floors. Which was not the case. :) The property prices in London those days were steep, so the ground floors were normally smaller. I'm sure the house models are a bit off; they are models (tudor houses) that I've found online, and that I've tried to group in UV mapper as they were in one big piece; hence the somewhat off materials (The groups aren't quite right). I think I've solved it for now, by dragging the focus a lot closer to the house walls. I'm rendering to disk now, so I'll see the end result when all is done. As for the "helpers" of the city; the ones who came at night to pick up the corpses. From what I have read; these were not very attractive jobs, so it was normally poor people who carried out that job. In that sense, the cape dressed person is off; it was normally doctors who could affort that kind of protection (I've seen drawings of doctors with a long "beak" where they put herbs that they thought were protective). That is why they boy not only is unprotectively dressed; he is also barefoot (that will show on my next render, I hope) The doors were important.. which was why I have modelled them in. If there was a person who got the plague in the household; there was painted a large red cross over/on the door to that house; and all who lived there were quaranteened for 40 days. Which was also one reason why several medical doctors earned a lot; they mis-diagnosed people who actually HAD the plague so that the household wouldn't have to be quaranteened. Hmm... I guess that's all I can think of at the moment. Oh; the rats... Being from Norway; and seeing that the plague rats are called "rats Norwegicus" (yicks... so NOT an honour! l), at least the rats I've seen in Norway AND here in the us are dark brown; and they are too light in my render.. will see if I can fix that.