===== From scooby@pld.com: Truly beautiful image! ===== From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com: I like the mountains and lava, but the flat area in front is distracting. perhaps the heightfield should have simply sloped under the viewer. Also, there appears to be a blank spot between your mountains and sky. ===== From gmol@my-dejanews.com: Good pic..I think it suffers from (like a lot of other images) height-field-o-rama.... ===== From guilhem.christol@hol.fr: The lava in halo are impressive ! ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Good textures in the rock/sky. The "lava bubbles" are a key artistic detail, but they tend to throw off the whole scale of the scene. Are they many feet tall? Or are the "mountains" just little piles of rock? ===== From djconnel@flash.net: Nice flame work!!!! However, consider using the bump pattern to create a height field -- the lava plane detracts from the rest of the image, which is quite effective. Also, there appears to be the notable absence of signs of lava flow, past or present, on the rocks. ===== From 101741.541@compuserve.com: Well expressed hot atmosphere, pfeew ! Bumps are not very well suited to a lava sea; did you try crackles (or even better : a height-field) ?