Okay, I'm working again after a bit of a hiatus. Trying to expand my skills further, but I've run into a bit of a snag. I'm trying to make this look fairly photo-realistic, but I can't seem to do the waterfall correctly. I followed the tutorials available here and elsewhere, adding a halo mist at the bottom and motion-blurring the water texture, but it's still not right. Can anybody help me out here?

The water right under the bastion shouldn't be there. There should be a gap. The water itself: You could mix two materials together using a "picture filter". Make the second material totaly tranceparent. You must make the picture yourself, but it's easy, just draw long black lines on a white background. Foam: Make a landscape with a big hole in the middle. Choose the white material. Make it 100% tranceparent and use one of the filters and adjust the filter until you got tiny white dots. Copy the landscape, make it smaller and adjust the filter so you get larger dots. This way you get several layers with white dots. :)

Just wait some hours, Tiggerbear. I will then announce in a new thread here the place where my waterfall tutorial can be found (the one published in Renderosity Magazine issue #2):-) You will see how easy it is. Guitta

but the rock material is not at all realistic ! You should mix different materials, use materials with mapped pictures, such perfect surface is not possible with the "sandlike" material. That's a difficult part. Maybe also try to rotate a terrain to 90 to have more bumps ;=) Yves