Ryzom

The word I was looking for silly me brain fart was terrain editor.

I getting a little panicky because I have a feeling everything was done in 3DMax and if that is the case holy crap for people like me lol.

I was wondering if we could if that is the case maybe work to find a good open source terrain editor and modify it a bit of course and make it work perfectly to work with the game engine?

Example of one I saw:
http://www.hurricane-eye.webs.com/gmterraineditor.html

Im fairly new to this project as well, although I began a few months or so ago on opennel, but It appears that 3dsmax is used to build terrain and particles and lighting, and export out to nel formats. I think (correct me if im wrong someone) that there used to be a nel maya script as well, but its gone from the open nel repository.

As for using 3dsmax to create a zone I was successful last night in the creation of one but I could not export it out because my config files are all pointed to w:\ and r:\ and the like, so today I am editing every config file in the code to match my directory structure. If I get this to work and can give some definitive info on getting a zone built I will post a quick guide.

Metal3d share some screenshots of your work if you don't mind :)