I'm far from any expert or 'guru', but I did play around trying to make a 'cove' tonight after Rita's question (I usually like to do 'interiors'). I found that creating a number of terrains and altering them in the editor and then layering them, resizing them, etc.--gave me a really nice uneven shore line and changing the water material to one that reflected 'depth' showed the changes in the terrains near the water's edge. I did the same for my one and only 'sea' scene and there I used a number of small terrains for a distant shore and tilted them, rotated them, made small and large ones and moved some back some forward, gave me a rocky shore. Just a thought. Diane B