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Stephen, I'm afraid I missed or just spaced your message. Sorry about that. You were mentioning that you had 80k trees but 200+ of them, and I'm not sure what it is in reference to. I have optimized trees and it does help. FWIW I have become an instant convert to Optimize. I now have 3 favorite modeling tools, Optimize, Displace, and Fractilize. In this game of PC's vs workstations which many people have told me is more a matter of bus speed than processing power every face/vertice you can get rid of helps. I've been working on a project which before optimizing was 112k faces and after optimizing I got it down to 55k. Rendering times decreased by 40-45%. That in my estimation is a massive savings in time and money. More valuable than upgrading to a pentium, not that you can't benefit by the processing power but that benefit is wasted without totally efficient modeling etc. I'm guessing but I would suspect you could cut your trees poly's by 20% without a reduction in coverage. I hope this answer's your question, if not fill me in and I'll try again. I'd be happy to optimize one of your trees for you so that you could compare. -JE