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I'm currently working with flying over fractal landscapes, myself. I use Fractint from over in the COMART forum. Here's what to do once you get it: Create a plasma fractal, the higher resolution, the better. Then use GIF2DXF (available somewhere in the libs here) to turn the plasma gif into a dxf file. The dxf file is directly loadable into 3d Studio, except you'll have to apply smoothing (if you want it) and flip the normals. I recommend meshes of 100×100 or greater for realistic looking landscapes. In my opinion, fractint is a great program for making texture and bump maps as well (not to mention opacity and reflection too <g>). In fact, you may want to map a plasma bump map onto your landscape object to add even more detail. Aaron