Smallspace, I don't have all the answers but do have a few. Solid growth will not provide better looking trees. You'll simply have to accept that trees were never very good at looking, even if you give them prescription eyeglasses. I'm not sure if staring into the Vue sun will blind you. But looking too long at some of those Poser models people use might. Definitely it will grow hair on the palms of your hands. When your monitor gets full of volumetrics just tilt it a bit and some of it will leak out. I think the random rock will probably just be from current bands. But you can always apply erosion effects to age it properly. Negative lights never have an attitude. It is just that positive lights don't have a proper appreciation of reality. But I can't really speak from experience- I'm a "lights out" kind of guy. Don't worry about excess blue gunk. You can always sell it to the fashion designers- they'll buy anything. After exhaustive analysis, observation and the most meticulous research I can most assuredly confirm that no, animated solid growth trees will not produce sound regardless of second party observations. Uhhh.. wait a moment, is that volume control off...? Seriously, I'm a Bryce fan but if I were Corel I would be a bit worried right now. I'm definitely going to need a closer look at Vue 4 when it is released. Hope they'll have a demo. Actually, they could probably get a lot of extra sales if they offered a sidegrade from Bryce. ps. Oh yes, I'd like to complain about the fact that Vue 4 does not yet incorporate all the features of Vue 5. - Jack Valero