Well, since I'm unsure about the clarity of my "technical" explanations when I answered Mark below, may be some picts will help better than my english! :-)

Sure, the low resolution of these "terrain" prevents true artistic scupture. Yet, simple use of effect can easily make some little stone caving tricks : bottom left one can easily recognise the use of "fluvial", while the top stone was chipped with Minimum (or Maximum, I never remember 'til I use them) and a near zero altitude.

And the last, as a kind of joke, even the floor planks are made from (one, this time) terrain. A bitmat texture would have been easier, but it would still be easy to carve an hole in theses planks with the terrain editor. Herv

They look awesome Herve :) Laurie

The terrain editor can be very pwerful, perticularly with things "terrain-like", such as blocks as you have here. It's not real good for some things where alot of finesse is needed (although Laurie (Daffy34) does a great job with it in that respect!), for most of us, but you have done an excellent job with your blocks. Again, great job! And thank you for this mini tutorial here. :)

Excellent directions, Herv :)

Hey Herve, thanks for the explanation... So, what you're telling us is that you put together the wall with the stones?? That must have been some work... Also, I love the mortar and pestle, the book and the bunsen burner... Only a real alchemist would use these things... :)

Nostredamus' lab? :)

Im glad this please you all :-) Yes the wall is a terrain duplicated (you see two "clones" of it here), but it wasn't really a pain since this time the lack of ortho constraints with the drawing tools of the editor wasn't really a problem The column is another terrain, not enough put inside the wall (I've just seen it), but with the softness slider near its minimum, then a quick picked rounded filter of altitude to have a near perfect "roundness" (is this a word?). oh, good guess btw, at first I wanted to make a alchimist lab... but VUE2 missed terribly this "king of the kings" of primitive : torus! Herv

Yup, the torus was introduced in v.3...so at least, if you plan to move up, you know it'll be waiting for you. :)

Herv I'd never have thought of using terrains for modelling like this. Thanks for the clear explanation. I'll have to try this. Mark