I've been thinking things over and everyone's replies have been very helpful. Benjamin A (aeilkema), I really like your Vue gallery, especially Hills Chalenge 3, which is so painterly, and Trekki, your Stonemason image with the plants has great texture and feel. I love landscape, did many as a pastel artist and some oil, but for me personally I seem to have trouble translating that onto a 2d computer screen using 3d constructs. I think for now at least I'll stick with Poser using Flink's skies and a land morphing tool I found over at Daz by FirstBastion and develop my approach. Maybe then Vue will work out. I had the feeling that TerraDome was not going to produce the kind of landscape I was looking for, confirmed by aeilkema. So thank you all very much.