Yeah, the shaded view in Leveller is really about the best view you'l get of the whole terrain. I'll be posting some exported shaded views with my terrain later today. Some of the features around St. Helens are amazing, the detail in the lava flows, even roads and what look like they might even be trails! Cool stuff. In any case a 24bit .tga file will, I believe, only have 8bit/channel resolution, so it's no better than the .bmp option. Did you notice stairstepping in the imported terrain? What about .tif? - Oshyan