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[Henry Blewer]

I kind of like the idea of a giant croco-thing attacking. But then I love B-movies, 50's and 60's Sci-Fi, and Japanese monster movies. (not to mention Girls Aloud).
It would be cool if an imported object could be used to drive terrain displacements. Maybe in Terragen 3.

[pfrancke]

I'm enjoying the sub in the ice series very much.  And a big part of the enjoyment is seeing some of these real pics.  The modern subs makes one want to be in the navy, but I imagine that for the most part the fellows on the sub wouldn't get to see this great scenery.  I think the monster sighting was cool too, I always suspected there were things unknown and unseen in those cold deep waters.

[Costaud]

but most images of submarine in arctic sea (or any cold sea) I saw on the net and books have no mountains, check these images 

Yes, you're quite right, and that's probably because 99.9% of the time subs are in open waters, frozen or not. However they do sometimes come close to land masses, even in arctic waters. I've included an array of photos to help you appreciate that. Also, I was rather expecting you to use your imagination and try to visualise the scenario of my scene. Do try, there's a good chap. Hopefully the above mentioned array of photos will also serve as an aid to raising or at least elasticating your credibility threshold. The sea monster attacking the sub, I agree, may be a step too far. May I also suggest that reading some adventure novels such as Alistair MacLain's excellent "HMS Ulysses", which is set in North Atlantic icy waters, will help in this regard with exercising your imaginative powers.

I do hope you find what I have said helpful and constructive.

Regards
John

You're right I will use my imagination a little more, hope I didn't offended you with my comment, if so please forgive me, I really like this kind of image and I just wanted to help a little 

Btw my interest in Terragen has been rekindled, but my main computer is kaput and I'm now on a P4 3.19Ghz and this one is very sloooooooooooow.

[Mr_Lamppost]

May I also suggest that reading some adventure novels such as Alistair MacLain's excellent “HMS Ulysses, which is set in North Atlantic icy waters, will help in this regard with exercising your imaginative powers.

Ice Station Zebra has a sub breaking through the ice in the way you describe.

[TheBlackHole]

You should add some darker spots on the terrain where it's too steep for snow. Right now it looks like they're made from plaster!

[schmeerlap]

You should add some darker spots on the terrain where it's too steep for snow. Right now it looks like they're made from plaster!

No I shouldn't; and no I don't think they do.

I've compiled (put together) a few examples of Ice ("plaster") Cliffs for you to study.

Regards
John

[Henry Blewer]

Thanks for the teaser John! Could you send my the Girls Aloud image?
Ice is very hard to get to look right. I am rendering a snow mountain scene now. I gave up on the ice in it. I miss the old shader that Terragen 0.9xx had for ice.