I haven't done my homework here so apologies ...

I recently upgraded my VUE Complete and was browsing through the examples when I saw a DEM landscape render. DEM's are real world data files representing landscapes. I had been struggling to create the San Francisco peninsula and the Bay in Carrara, and decided to give VUE a try. Worked great, Google found the DEM file and VUE did the rest. I found an old link showing that Carrara can import DEM, but I have not tried it:

http://www.carls-corner.net/tutorials/C4_DEM_GrndCntrl/C4_DEM_tute.htm

Anybody tried this? If its troublesome, I'm thinking maybe I can export the landscape mesh from VUE as an OBJ ... or something ...