I'm doing a plotless fighter plane animation to teach myself particles and path animation. I currently have started a 1 minute run through a canyon and a bullet-time shot of a missle hitting the plane. C&C gladly accepted (in particular, how to make the fire and smoke more realistic?). the terrain is just a temporary version with the general geometry I am going for. This is just the bullet time shot (if anyone can host it I will post the rest when rendered, but for now I do not have my own page). Also, does anyone know of a good FREE DivX encoder that does not leave a watermark? when I try to use VideoMach's DivX encoder it has an error. Thanks'o Ben