Hi Khem:

Thanks for the response. I am not far enough into Vue to be sure
about importing greyscale terrain maps but I'll give it a try. I
bought the programme as a magazine offer and it has sat on my shelf
for a while.

I am producing maps of a fantasy world for a fiction author and
wanted to do some 3D scenes of what I have produced to see if the
author shares my mental images. So I took Vue off the shelf and
opened it up. It was only then I realised what a great piece of
software it is and started investigating a bit more seriously. Sadly
I can't afford a few hundred bucks to upgrade to the newer versions,
but I find what I have does pretty well what I want.

My present problem relates to showing a piece of terrain that, with
the viewer standing at ground level, disappears below ground level -
almost like a gravelly slope going down into an underground cavern. A
canyon is, I believe, a narrow passage between two walls of rock -
but at ground level. Do you think the terrain map you linked me two
will achive this? Indeed, is Vue (my version, at least) capable of
doing this at all?

Cheers,

Mike
www.cartography-services.co.uk