Attached Link: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/DMarkwick/FirstRender.jpg

Nope, I reckon the Ecosystem replicates the same object (be it vue vegetation or net), but it does apply random rotational & scaling to each instance. Check out this picture - actually the first picture I made with V5I. On the trees in the foreground hill you can see that there is an odd "twist" of branch/leaves poking out the top of the tree, and that you can see this same twist in many trees.

I think the instancing algorithm is why Ecosystems render so fast.

Message edited on: 04/28/2005 09:29