Alrighty! I'm working on ripply sand for this cd cover and i have to finish it this week. AGH! Out of urgency and the sudden busy-ness of my Lightwave partners on this project, i'm hurriedly working to create some sand in Bryce. I don't have Real World Bryce yet, otherwise i'd look there. (i know - maybe for xmas ) I'd love to hear any sand recipes or know of any good top-down rippling sand images. My current strategy: create or find a decent rippling sand texture. Use that as height info for a sand terrain and map the (or another) sand texture onto the terrain. I'm currently messing with the DTE, beginning with the Simple&Fast warped wood texture to get some decent rippling. I'm going through the phase options at the moment. I know it looks like wood - i'm not focusing on color at the moment. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!