Jaymonjay, i tried using a torus. I used a shpere with it and i almost got the dust cloud looking like i wanted until i noticed that the texture was brown on one side. tjohn you have the dust cloud on the right foot the way i want it, the foot that is off the ground i'm going to try and make it look like dust/dirt is falling from it(without post work LOL) electroglyph, thank you for the quick tut you put together, i'll work on it using that. I have a small problem though, i have no idea how to get the RGB gage up in the DTE like you did and i don't have any programs to do post work in or that i can use a colour picker in. The image i have posted was a quick render of the original with out the yellow in the sky or any haze. The texture on the terrain is actually a red colour which i tweak in the DTE to turn it the red/brown colour. Thanks all once again CD Formally LT

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