it also excludes modelling terrains through bryce's native creator and so on Drac, where did you really come with that? the only thing I found in the challenge FAQ is this: --- Q: Can I use Poser to make different people (because they will not be the main purpose of the scene)? A: No prefabs, if your characters are tiny it won't take you much effort to model some lowpoly humans. --- And even if they did come up with such a thing, it would be very silly of them, because not only the landscape creators use formulas, but every high-end program I know has heightfield from bitmap function, as well as plugins for terrain creation.

-- erlik