As if someone was reading our minds... Seems as if it could be rewritten to apply to all autogen trees, rather than just one object at a time....it does create a repitive back and forth motion as we were looking for....but, it also appears that like other critics of my idea, that I believe that framerates would suffer with hundreds of moving objects like that...Airport from Wilco is a great example of what happens to framerates with a lot of moving objects...P4 1.8768 ram 80 gig hardriveVisiontek Ti4 4600CH yoke/pedalsElite Multi quadrant19" inch monitor-Soundblaster PCI 512Win XPInstrument rated ASEL -224 hoursAOPALawyerPilots Bar Association"Men without dreams are never free, twas thus this way and thus will ever be."

I can't say I have ever used trees to determine wind direction or even noticed much tree movement unless winds were 25+kts and I was taxiing. I do tend to use them as a gauge at my house though before I go flying. I can usually estimate the wind speed by the tops of the trees...:-) BTW- I would like to see those cloud shadows on the ground in the next version! Wishful thinking maybe....

Lago's Honolulu has swaying trees. I don't see any frame rate loss from the effect maybe because it's done with GMAX? Looks really cool too.Best Wishes, Randy J. Smith[h5]San Jose Ca[/h5][h3]" A little learning is a dangerous thing"[/h3]AMD XP 2200 |MUNCHKIN 512 DDR RAM |ECS[/b ][i] K7S5A MB[/i] |GF3 64 MEG |WIN XP PRO |MITSUBISHI DIAMOND PLUS 91 19"