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Youve got a good start on an image. I was noticing that I can see the stone thru the water up close. Thats a nice touch. The texture on the house needs some work. Like said above. You could try actually laying boards for the house, or find a good "board" texture. the lighthouse needs a new texture too...a stone, brick or something. Maybe a walkway and hand rail at its top? and the lightray looks like a glass texture put on a cylinder? Try changing that to the "green lit" preset texture...then change all the green in that texture to white in the material lab... then itd look like the attached pict (the rays I mean) show us the rework OK? later BT