Hannes or to anyone who reads here
I think you can do a really great looking Massive (pun intended) scene even with the features that are just now present.
If you think about the price of such a software (for example:
http://www.massivesoftware.com/products.html )
i will do the manual parts that you need to do such a scene with joy even
I wanted to do such a scene but i just have no time and don't want to go into character modeling-animating (i haven't even done it in a serious way until today) just now.
It should be very easy for a rigger animator that have especially the objects ready.
* Use say 10 characters (men, women,warrior etc.) or so much you want.
* Make an animated sequence of every object.
Say you want an army of sword fighting warriors.
* Make a population with one of them.
* Then use the exact same population with another character but in the object node rotate the warrior 180 degree and change its
position just a little further then the other population (only translate in the object node of the object itself).
I haven't tried it but now hopefully all the warriors should look as they are fighting each other.
* The other steps are repeating the same with other characters and using masks for the other populations etc. how you like it.
* If you trow running guys,horses,different colors or whatever you want etc. in it should look quite interesting.
I will watch such a scene with joy whoever makes it with Terragen