I second the vote for a "complete" plant editor. This doesn't mean we'll need a whole lot of complex options and the like, but just a simple front-end to change - bark (colour, bumpmap, textures) - foliage (colour, density, textures, size) - spread or the like. I know you can change most of those settings by hand, but a plant editor would come in very handy. Then, some more "basic plants" to complete the offer. Those should include - conifers - oak - birch - shrubbery - vines. A shader for grass would be a nice addition, too. Apart from plants, let me reiterate a point from my posting further up the thread: Radiosity, please. Or even full global illumination. ;) Nowadays, other low-cost programs such as trueSpace and Carrera offer either or both. What's more, using a raytracing engine, both can be implemented very easily with Vue. Such an implementation wouldn't be exceptionally fast or easy to set up (lots of parameters to handle, render time would at least double, more likely quadruble), but it would be there for the freaks who want to play around with it or for those renders that simply require the extra quality. ta, -Sascha.rb