thx zeeman i'll try and fix that later.
iv almost finished the base of the woman tree so i thought id try out an idea of putting a glowing orb above her head.
here's afew pics of it. for some reason the glow of the orb never worked when i merged the scene with the background trees.
i have decided to make a normal map for the tree so it is in subdevide as the normal map will smoot it all up

and im going to scrap the idea of low poly althought im going to make it low first to add the normal map.
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/1...ngtests3tl.jpg
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