Terragen is just the best landscape tool you can get for free. Thelimits of the unregistered version are not too hard, the registration not too expensive.
You just need to get in touch with the surface layer definitions to create credible and colorful surfaces.
Click the [X] links.[X] Amazon rivers (won a
3rd place award in the TerraCon \"Water Works\" contest)
[X] Comanche - Silent Operations (\"Game\" contest - editing was allowed here)
[X] \"Demon\", class Y planet
[X] Night in the desert
[X] A really dry piece of earth
[X] Floodland (related to the flood in the eastern part of Germany when it was made)
[X] Even whole planets or moons could be possible.
[X] A rather rocky mountain
[X] Mount St. Hellens Atoll (a contest where its terrain data had to be used)
[X] Nightswimming (a contest to use a song as inspiration)
[X] Swimming pool (yes, I swear - only made with Terragen, nothing else!)
[X] Prison Island (a \"Buildings\" contest)
[X] Chalk cliffs at the coast of Ruegen island
[X] Another music contest: \"Deine Spuren im Sand\" (Howard Carpendale)
[X] [X] Another music contest: \"Stormfront\" (Billy Joel)
Do you want your personal landscape or even planet? Ask me...