You are going to lose most of your Res Detail when you import a Heightfield or Terrain Generating Picture into Vue. What I am Saying is to take a Heightmap, import into your Maya and if Maya retains full or almost full Resolution on the terrain, then take that terrain and make it an Object in 3DS, lwo, obj or any of the object files that Vue will handle and Import the Terrain Object onto Vue and Hopefully you will retain more and maybe even all the finer detail of your Terrain.
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Special Note:** World-Machine has a totally free forever version that wil create 512x512 terrains
Click **HERE
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Terraformer is totally Free and never runs out and it will handle Terrains up to 4096x4096. It also has one of the most Powerful Erosion Filter I have seen. It is **HERE
**Look in the section marked **"**SONSTIGE" it is the first item there.

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Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!