Here is a different take on the same test. It's almost lunch time here. : ) I think the shading domain needs to be shaped in circles... What I did was cut the plane into a strip of 4 zones, each with an AnythingGrows patch that I animate as the ship passes over. The shading zones are squares and the grass also a square of movement. Does anyone know a better way to do this? Thanks, Robert

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