Animating by the wind can be done by realtime mesh deforming, in any direction by a complete world affecting wind function.
Tropical plants are very useful. I could need more of them. Especially large room filling simple bushes. I canīt find good reference pictures, but the tree tops of the trees of vietcong (I never played it) are exactly how I imagine them, just as bush and not a large tree with the big trunk:
http://www.vietcong-game.net/game/screenshots/vietcong_199b.gifBut in the end you should create what you like maybe something with flowers like in sunset down.
