Quote - I've been playing with an addon for Wings that lets it create terrains from Height maps.  Still coming to grips with the making of the height maps, but getting there. 

I live in the terminal morane area of the Wisconsinan glacier, and right on the south  edge of that,  THis is the terrain I'm shooting for, I have some definite ideas, and I don't have Vue.  The highest hill we have, I'm guessing here, maybe in the whole county would be about a hundred feet or so in probably a half mile from the low to the high.  Nothing steep or craggy, a few erosion gulleys, creeks and rivers, some small lakes, nothing more than a mile across in the county, most less than that.  One large city, which I escaped 35 years ago, more towns of around a thousand or two.  The buildings I've put up reflect what I see every day, until they finish tearing them down, then it will be just "ho-hum",  nothing of interest here.

I have (Crash) Bryce (Crash)  but never (crash)  could get it(Crash) to work (BSD)

Doric.

Which version of Bryce is crashing.  Old as they are, I still tend to go to B5 or even B4 (if I need volumetic materials as Corel broke it between 4 and 5).  If I really need to, I go to 5.5 for the DS bridge.  I have higher versions but don't even have them installed. 

Do you have an older version?  IIRC, you can use a format from the USGS to create terrains.  Sorry, I can't remember the format off hand but both those versions do come with manuals so the format is listed.