For the grass, you can 1. Use Bantam3d's free grassmaker (in the Backroom/free software) 2. Create 2 or 3 thick patches of grass, render them in high resolution, save them as alphas 3. Use these alphaplanes inside Vue to fill optically a big surface 4. Use "real" grass only in the foreground I think you could easily create a megaphone by yourself, even inside Vue Pro. Guitta