You were lucky to get 12... my machine went into the toilet at 7...
The solution seems to be to use the same tree over and over.
I tweaked the include file to accept a maxheight argument and
included it three times... then spun the trees around and grouped
them to get 20 without running out of memory... might even be
able to go higer but 20 was all I needed.

Ken wrote in message <361E9BE2.27672982@pacbell.net>...
>    Last night I attempted to use your last version in a scene.
>I had 12 xtrees declared and before the scene could render windows
>popped up and told me that I was running out of hard drive space.
>The swapfile size had grown to over 180,000,000 bytes and had
>consumed my 98 megs of ram. If you have any improvements to make it
>would have to be in the memory use area. I mean wow that's a lot of
>memory to use in one scene.
>   I'm going to try it again to night and see if I can lower the
>needle count because the scene I'm using it in would really look
>great with the inclusion of pine trees.
>
>Anyway thanks again.
>
>Ken Tyler
>

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