My Vue 4 animation already has 1500 trees, and is, not surprisingly, crippling my system. So, two questions 1) I'd like to apply some sort fo Forest Material to hills that are far from the camera, as I sigure a fake forest will be undetedable that far away, especially snce the camera is always moving. But I can't find any. Does anyone have advice for making (or downloading) a material that looks sort of like a forest from far away, without actually building every tree? 2) Any advice on managing such a large number of trees? Do you know how I can make them not completely tank my system (500 mb ram g4 dual processor)? Also, for the next animation i will have to kill every single tree (make them dead tree). Is there a way to apply a new tree to every tree at one time. I don't relish the prospect of individually killing 1500 trees. I have gotten myself intoa bit of a fix. Any tips? Thanks! C