ok ! i should present my project on thrusday. So little tim to render. I have a procedural map moutain, a water object and tree layer in the moutain material. Rendering time with metntal ray is taking more then. how can i make a framefor 30 min max animation.
plz i really need your help in this
thanks 

i don't know as i said before the problem was the wind. How can i know if the ecosystem is regenerating for each frame?
And by the way. final gather mpa in mental ray is taking 3 hours per frame. I don't know whats the problem.

well I think you need to give ur best to get a good result. 
Demoreels never lies. I know you can't do like these (maybe) but if u practice it u will benefit.

If no1 knows about why the trees are dispappearing well it's because of the wind. I removed the wind from the a. editor and voila! gd render no flickering....just the water surface has flicker cuz of the moutain reflection on the water. 
I'll try to tweak the reflections...Is there any tip abou this one?

 thanks a lot shawn. This has really fix some flickr but one weird thing is happening. 
The render is fine but some trees disappear in some frames and in others appears. What's the problem :S:S

 yea i'm working on this one. let's see . but i think there's lot more than this. thanks anyway :)

 okey So i know u don't use xstream...but do you know if i use the GI of vue. can i save the photon map in anyway?? without turning on the GI of mental ray.
I feel that i'm not that clear but hope u'll understand what i mean.

 Man you saved my life! 
Thanks a lot .. that works same in 3ds max. 
thanks again!

 anyone please?!!

 oh ! okey i found it..i'll give it a try and i'll give u my feedback :P

i'm using vue xstream and i can't double click the water plus i cant find the overal agitaiton and stuff :S:S:S

Thanks peggy ! thats wat i wanted  !!

1 other thing...i had to scale the moutain to fit the car ( cant do the opposite due to a plugin settings of the car ) anyway...when i render the water waves looks too big. is there any way to scale it down?

 okey! i'll try this even though i no nothing about uv mapper. but i'm downloading it now. thanks

 and then i export it back to 3dsmax? because at the end the animation will be in max.

 Hope so! i'll try this too. 
Can you check the other thread. Maybe u can help me with that one too... :P

 haha yea! 
btw the boolean didnt work . anyways thanks for the tip before. cheers