Wow! Thank you for spending the time Mark to give me feedback I can use. I'll get back to it and play with the atmospherics. The background - cloud is an image rendered and applied to a plane. I could not get the altitude right and had to cheat. Yeah, the trees are perma-green. I wanted some contrast on the hillside, but I agree, it is too much bright green. I'll play with the water, it is too dull. Is there a way to add "dark" lights - black holes? I like the idea for using alpha mask on generated particles. I don't have experience using alpha mesks, except in photoshop. Thanks again Mark.

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