I want to concentrate more on Carrara as I've been spending too much time in Bryce and I think I've reached the point of diminishing returns there but I guess you could say the same thing about my attempts poser, truespace and wings LOL. As a pratical critique based more on my Bryce experience more than Carrara I'd say that probably the next thing you want to concentrate on would be to scale down the texture shaders in the terrain; it looks as though you have the potential to get really good with this! - TJ