thanks papalatistudios - yeah, you are right - I probably am shooting myself in the foot - I guess I wanted to keep this project fairly open ended. Due to my schedule, I really doubt that I will finish on time anyway. I just wanted to have a scene with lots of buildings in it. Nothing to show at the moment. I have just been working on the ground plane and modelling the cliff face, which is looking kind of crappy. I have also been trying to texture one of my trees, which is not going so well. I had hoped to transfer the UVs from one leaf to the rest, but it doesn't seem to be working, so I may have to planar map each leaf seperately! There must be an easier way...?