[Elmo]

Believe it or not I had that idea and told my housemate only yesterday.. would like to see how well I could do it.. I'm working on the 3dsky displacements at the moment just to get the rest of the grass planes done.

Once i've done that I'll decide how to make it look better. The thought I had was to have some ruins as you showed in the picture, almost exactly how I had envisaged..

Don't know how well I could do the mountains though, I only use 1/4 scale skybox so that the detail of the skybox can still be of reasonable quality and so the textures line up correctly. Obviously this means theres a larger performance hit the more stuff I add. I dont how bad that performance hit would be though

I dont know if my 'artistic capabilities' will limit how good the outcome will be. If it looks crap I'll just have to scrap the idea, but I'll definatly give it a go.