Another great addition to this wonderful series of models - merci, Alain.

Lovely detail - thanks again Alain.

A slightly belated happy birthday, Asunta.

Sorry Guitta - I somehow managed to completely miss the last two short posts on this thread before replying! And I agree - the TE is indeed feature-rich and can be used very successfully for all those things and more, it just isn't the last word in precision if you want to model a natural terrain to an exact specification.

Whilst accepting Gebe's remarks about the range of tools available in the terrain editor, I have to agree with ShadowWind that it can be a rather blunt instrument, particularly if you are trying to recreate an actual real-world terrain. I know Mikeangelo also had to work very hard at this in his images of real scenes. If I were to tackle this sort of project, I would be inclined to pursue the external modeller route. Some of my own terrains have been created with nothing more complex than painting the grayscale heightfield map using PSP7.

Easy. After opening a new file, go to the Others folder in the Atmosphere dialogue and choose either White Back or Black Back. This will give you either a totally white or black sky. If you want some other colour, open the Atmosphere Editor, go to the Sky tab and double-click on the Sky Colour Map box. In the browser, choose the colour you would like (either plain or a colour gradient if preferred). OK everything then select Ground in the object hierarchy tree and press delete. You now have a plain (or graduated) background in the colour of your choosing.

Thanks once more Alain for your generosity in sharing these splendid models freely with us.

Another wonderful gift - thanks once more Alain.

Oops - sorry about that - I always was useless at remembering names!

Thanks for the link, Smalltalk. I had a quick look and was amused by one odd feature of the price list. After being queried for my country of origin and replying UK, I was presented with a price list marked up in US dollars and Euros (treated as numerically equivalent). This is very worrying - does it signify that Tony Blair has already done surreptitious deals with America and/or Europe to change our currency to one or the other? ;)

Many thanks for this beautiful addition to your generous gifts.

They look great! On my way... thanks Andy.

Am I glad I read to the end of this thread! Thanks for the link, Agiel - I had no idea such an archive existed. Searching around for where the link from the main Forum was (in the FAQ section) has also turned up a couple of other things I'd missed previously.

What a clever idea - though I shudder to think how long it must have taken you to set all this up. Thanks for something refreshingly different.

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