We talked to our boss the other day and he agreed to get xFusion. Think we solved it this way: Well make distance renderings of the landscapes and map them on planes in Max, export some trees and place them nearest the camera. For more distance trees, well use some planes with planar maps on them. Some animations will be mad inside of Vue, but the character animatios will be mad in max...of course. Well see how it goes. Thanx!