Yeah, just increase the far clipping plane in the camera attributes. You might also want to consider changing the focal length to get a wider angle view. That will allow for a closer camera seeing...

I find microsoft expression encoder works pretty well after having major headaches with everything else. And youtube.

Instancing typically involves multiple objects with different transform nodes and the same shape node. So since the shape node contains all the mesh info, I can see how that would reduce the RAM...

That's the kind of work that I think there's not enough of in the CG hobbyist world. Too many demons, cars, women and guns and not enough beautiful lush environments.

By the way, seems like Onyx...

I guess all those topics would be interesting. I'd like to know how you get the nice dense geo. You say particle emitters?

That's pretty incredible. Mind doing a short tut on building plant matter? You seem to have done a terrific job blending different shrubberies together. My only crit is that the fog seems a bit...