Attached Link: http://www.chesco.com/~cjcigas/tutorial/index.html

These were written with Bryce in mind, but there's some really great technical info that applies to Vue too. The Parametric Terrain Editor makes some really nice rolling wave effects and the Grouper program (for Poser importing to Bryce) might be worth trying in Vue, also... ********************************************* Tutorials and Applications Here is a list of short tutorials and applications for Bryce users. However, many of these techniques can be used with other software packages. Parametric Terrain Editor (freeware application) Importing Large Rhino Models Into Bryce 4 Lighting Reference Grouper 1.1 (freeware application) Getting the Most From Zygote's Michael General Mapping Transparency Mapping Bump and Specularity Maps

Attached Link: http://www.hknot.com/wavesworld/sample.html

BTW, here's a page from a Mac freeware program (not Windows), but the description on how to build wave effects on a beach can be used in Vue with terrains...

I tried the Grouper utility with non-Poser, regular texture-mapped Wavefront OBJ models and this works GREAT in VUE, as well as Bryce! This is a MAJOR useful free utility program. Everyone should get this...

Thanks FM, as always. I just got both the grouper and the PTE, They look pretty cool, really---gonna try it all out of course. :)

This is a great find, Fox! Thanks for passing it along! :)

I love that wave generator... I'm definitel going to try it out...

Yeah, I tried out the wave generator immediately and it definitely has potential! I wasn't too thrilled about having the program inform me it had to update some .ocx and .dll files, but whatever makes it work, I guess, is good. No problems with any other apps at least.

heyas; what wave generator? the thing only for mac?? what does grouper do? i did download that one wave texture thing to try in vue... haven't gotten around to it yet, though.

Hey, you know the single coolest thing about Grouper? It shows Vickie and Mike's "eyeballs" as separate, and therefore delete-able "objects". Well that's one less transparency to render..... Other than that, I suspect it's better suited toweards Bryce, because Vue does manage to grab the real names of a .OBJ file already. The terrain wave generator thing is Win 95/98. I made a cool splash-like terrain with it. It's cool--- I'll be using it for sure.