Some changes. I changed the first tile on the ridge and made it bull nose. [image: pSXN_TileBullNose.jpg]

Yes, Thanks Olishea. I just saw your work yesterday on the 6 backgrounds and i downloaded them. Scott thanks, i will try them out. I worked on one of them and made it seamless. This is my first. I had to cut stones and pasted them to make it seamless. [image: qQzL_Frontier_tumbled_split-face_51561.jpg]

Here's an update. RoofTiles look small and i might need to stretch them out in the x direction or i might try the Blender tiles, above. [image: QmPt_UpDate.jpg]

Here is an obj for the fatter trunk. Fat Trunk.7z

Looks better already! Mind if I borrow the file for a few quick adjustments?

@ pibuz, Materials and textures are blender materials. From this site: http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php?p=7

Here is another render and took almost 3 hours. I fixed somethings but the trees might be to dark. [image: 5aJX_FW2.jpg]

Some Trees from ngPlant in the background. Need to work on something else got tired of this scene. [image: kIfg_RenderF.jpg]

This last render used all of my RAM, 512 Megabytes, and slowed down with the Virtual Memory.

Alan, you need to model a lawn mower.

Here's more of the same. [image: qGOU_BestA.jpg] [image: RyXa_BestB.jpg]

ARE THOSE BEANS?!?!?! wait those are flowers, my bad

Model with SketchUp. Rendered with Blender. Trees on the background are from ngPlant. [image: 8PEB_StructureRoundC.jpg]

After cleaning up the yard. [image: yGSo_CleanUp.jpg] [image: bIQe_CleanUp2.jpg]

Another from the Google Warehouse. [image: fLw6_SuBuildingsC.jpg]

Given that the sun has another 5 billion years to go yet....whatever beings witness its end won't be human, even if they are our descendants. They'll be further removed from us than we are from bacteria. Darwinism in action. As for the water; I could see that even a few hundred gallons could make quite a difference to a small colony. You don't need much...any more than you need much to keep your car engine cool...but it weighs a hell of a lot as payload, so any local water would be useful.

I made them with ngPlant. The one's in the back look like huge vegetables.

What do you know about radiosity in blender? http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Lighting/Radiosity/Rendering

Yeah, I saw a Comcast feature this evening, wow!! the graphics are over the top, hope it's not all bling and no guts, as I'm a huge disaster flick fan.