I removed the leaf structure from the tree. While I think splitting the scene in a way would be cool, i don't think i got the skills to pull it off. So naked tree and worked some more branches out. I am still working on what i want for the school. One question is if I put windows on the school how do i want to do that? Still new to texturing so I am trying to understand the process. If I build the window out of the wall how will you add a transparent shader for just that part. or would it be better to build the window as a seperate geomentry and just hang it up on a hole in the wall? let me know what you guys think. here is my progress so far.

https://spiffyguy.com/simplymaya/school_03.jpg