Originally posted by Lipski Hey I like this so far but as said it can benefit from some more work and observation What I really like is this tree and may I ask how you made this? The shadows on it are quite nice and more on the stylistic side and would just love to make something similar Thanks for the warm comment Lipski Those tips and ideas i received will sure be very helpful to improve my images over-all look in the future and i am glad that i registered to this forum The 'yellowish' tree is a simple image i used and it's from the 3DTotal Textures Vol. 10. All the trees are images actually... I added a bump to the tree image(simple plane) and also a specular map(Not very noticeable though) And the shadow(Raytrace) itself is casted by the main light source Cheers, :edge:Loop