I hadn't thought of using terraains but I have been playing with them in an attempt to come up with some other things. I understand that Amapi has a bend tool as one of its functions but I didn't know that there might be a free version available. I do have lightwave which I received for Christmas but have put it aside in order to get the basic concepts down with Bryce a little bit better. However, it appears that even were I to attempt this in Lightwave I would be limited by the software's capabilities. So Amapi it must be then. So any idea where I can go to get a free version of the thing?