There is no reason to feel stupid. This a a huge challenge. Not many would have the patience to attempt it. I suspect that "separate process" refers to the layering process you are already doing. Not positive on that. Attaching pics to threads ... the small picture icon at the bottom of the text window should work for you. You choose the image you want to attach from the pop up window and the proper code appears in the "write" window. You can check by clicking the preview tab at the top of the text window. Dragging and dropping I don't believe does work in the Markup language. Feel free to site-mail me if you continue to have difficulties.

Another suggestion. Starting with the farthest "layer" of the scene, use whatever camera view is final view and render ... NO background and save as .png, do this with each forward layer until you get the closest. bringing in ONLY the items for each layer per render. Next Place ONE sided low-poly squares on each layer's position and texture them with each render making them each "billboards". Keep the final closest render 3d. We do trees like this all the time ... it has a good chance of working. Haven't tried it, but this is my theory and suggestion. This way you will get true shadows from each layer ... if you light it properly. That will be the tricky part.

Boni

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