Well, I spent some time in there understanding what things are what. Still seemed limited to trees and bushes...that looked better, but needed help and very slow to render. The replicator is definite woohoo. What about translucence...not a biggy. Limited? Isn't it a Plant modeler? Or are you more refering to flowers etc? This can be accomplished by some tweaking. Just change the leaf shape. The reason the render time is so slow is because of the high poly count of the plants. Ways of speeding this up is to lower the generation count, the leaf count and the smooth level. If you replace the leaves with your own leaf model watch the poly count. The the replicator is wonderful:) Translucence? You can somewhat simulate this with subsurface scattering. In the chat event Charles talked about perhaps a fast translucence being added for the final release but thats not guaranteed.