thank you both for the help. i feel kinda stupid for not figureing it out, especially since it is in the manual. is there a certain setting that would normally be used, or is it all trial and error? thanks again for the assistance, i really appreciate it!

thank you all for the tips. forester i sent you my email address in an IM, i am looking forward to seeing your model and using it. again thanks for the time and help.

hello becco, i stumbled on to that site some how. they have a lot of nice plants to be used. thank you for the help!

thank you, i will give that a try!

cool, thank you both very much. i will start looking around now!

yeah i realized the dinos were not on the ground after i posted it, oops! yes that answeres my question perfectly. i was not sure if that is what i should do, add more terains to the scene. i thought there my be another way to do it. thank you both for the assistance. you can be sure you will be seeing my again here. i tortured the bryce forum now it is your turn. thanks again for the time and help! eb

sorry about it being unclear. http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=441178&Start=1&Artist=ebsmooth&ByArtist=Yes this is not the picture in question, as i have not even started it yet. if you look at it you can see the water past the groung where the dinasour is, that is what i am trying to get rid of. so in other words i want there to be land where the water plane is. picture it as a river running through the middle of a jungle where it is no where near an ocean. still not sure if that makes any sence. thank you for the fast responce!!!

i've tried both methods and they worked very well. thank you all for the assistance, the help is greatly appreciated!!! eb

i can see your point. the render time should not be to bad either. thank you both for the advice.

cool not as hard as i thought. thanks for the help!

thanks for the help. aldaron/stash0404 that was going to be my next question. how to get the pic from from the avi. but now i do not need to ask. thank you again i appreciate the help! eb

thank you that helps alot! so whould i set up the document as an animation and then just make a picture as if i was just doing a still? or when you say aero or 1 frame animation is that a setting in lightning?

thank you all for the tips and advice! i can't say it enough how cool everybody here at the brice forum is. some of the other forums i have gone to (for other subjects) could care less about newbies. so i thank you all for taking the time to help me out. innovator, that was pretty damn cool, everything short of doing it for me. i know without a doubt that i will have more questions. thanks again, i appreciate the help! eb

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/default.asp hello all, sorry for the late post, but i came across this message and thought i could be some help. especially after all the help i have gotten here. the top link is an explaination of all the services running in the background of win xp (xp only, sorry). by disabling some of these you can get a performance boost, a noticeable one at that. don't worry it tells you which ones you need and which ones you are safe in disabling. the second link deals with the regedit feature. i have used a lot of them my self (from both sites) and let me tell you, my pc runs very well. i am really anal about getting the most from my pc and i can say with some certainty that you will get some performance from your machine from using these sites. one of the ones that helps is the "always uload dll's from memory" tweak. this one works really well! i have to text files filled with performance tweaks, if anybody would like to have them just let me know and i will post it in this thread. hope i was of some assistance! eb