@Flak "Some of the trees appear in the middle of the plowed fields and on the roads (and in a river in another pic I saw somewhere). That could be due to either a software limitation (as to how sharp you can make a boundary for an eco-system) or just the result of the artist working with features they're only just beginning to explore and aren't fully conversant with." In Mojoworld you can tell the program to watch where the steep slopes are, or where is the water, so it doesn't put trees there. Judging by the pic on the second link posted above, by Erka, Vue does something similar, as there are no trees on the vertical parts of the cliffs. OTOH, it would be interesting to know whether the program itself put the palms in the lower parts of the terrain, as a part of the ecosystem mix, or the artist just selected that part and told the program to populate it with the palms. BTW, the stone texture in Erka's pic is to die for. That is the Mediterranean stone. :-)

-- erlik