dandeIO,

Thanks for the explanation..it's very helpful. I think a big difference between my renders and yours is the actual rock texture. Mine is a standard (from the list) texture that ships with Vue. Yours is, IMO, much nicer. I should try and create that same rock texture, then we can compare apples to apples -- or rocks to rocks ;-)

Thanks much for pitching in! Just curious, why are the rocks such funny shapes? Is it something in TG2 or are they modelled elsewhere? Vue's rocks are also shaped weird as they are generated automatically by Vue.