Hi Chirone, thanks, I do think the new textures are getting better, glad I've got a while to experiment as with the millions of settings Maya and mentalray have doing it by trial and error is taking ages! The plants at the side of the road are meant to be growing out of the path, I thought of it as that they've built the house where these plants were, and they've grown back through everything, the ones in the planters were taken from the ground before the house and road were finished and planted there purposely, sorry, the storyteller in me is coming out even in this project!