Have spent the past hour playing with this technique, and all I can say is WOW! You can actually hand paint texture features on your terrains...water,rocks, grassy clumps. You can add layer upon layer of displacements (though the render time seems to increase significantly as Vue is busy blending so many different texture zones, I presume). The only thing Ill say though, the more materials you have, the moresaturatedthe terrain becomes. This technique even allows me what I wanted from world builder...paint roads straight onto the terrain! Kutter, one thing that wasnt mentioned in your tutorial is this: to get it working (on my system at least), in the Displacement of Materials 1 and 2 box (page 5 of your tutorial), underneath the popup box shown on your page, you need to change the scale of displacement x,y and z here to 6 also. I have re-read your tutorial several times and dont see it mentioned. Thanx again...happy Vueing