Ok, I'm trying to make my own backgrounds for some portaits of D&D characters I'm making. One in particular is a real problem. She's a Druid and I need some trees as a backdrop. I wanted to make my own as opposed to use someone else's pic so I fired up the old B4. Well I chose the first tree, a fir, and tripled it (rotating and resizing each copy) to give the tree more branches and make it thinker. I have 2, yes '2' of these trees as a backdrop. Rendering time ... days! How can I speed up this time. I'm not talking about upgrading my PC or anything (I have a 700Mhz, 256 RAM and a 64 RAM 3D card), just is there a better way to have a couple nice trees rendered on a 600x600 pic? What can be done to the trees to make them easier to render? Thanx for your time.