continued- You can do control/R and the big window will render or you can click on the big button on the left-the smaller buttons pause it, fast render, etc. When you place your mouse over them, their purpose shows at the bottom left of the screen. Now--go up to create and click on the terrain (the mountain). It will bring a mountain into the window. Go over to the right to the list of 'letters' and choose E which will take you into the terrain lab where you will get the default. The picture on the right basically works like a .bmp map--white is 'high' and black is 'low'. (To learn how this works, look in the section of the manual starting on page 174. Just play with those features later). Okay, now click on the triangle beside 'fractal'. Choose rolling hills and then click on 'fractal' You will see your 'mountain' below as well as the .bmp in the window. Now--go over to smoothing and click on it 3 times. You will see your rough mountains smooth down. Let's click on 'square edges'. You can experiment with the others later. You now have one mountain to work with--click the check in the bottom right corner for okay. continued