I don't know what's wrong with alpha planes? Why is this cheating? Hopefully this doesn't become another pure-3d-evangelists-thread...no offense! ;) I used an alpha plane im my last imag "Room with a View" myself. It's the cityscape you can see outside the window. Okay, the city was made in 3d by using terrainmaps and some basic textures. But anyway it's an alphaplane. :) As stated in many previous threads IMHO it's the final result what counts regardless how the image has been made. And I think you did a very good job with you image. Keep up the good work! Phil