Help Finding The Right Heightmapping Software for A Project

[LordIndy]

I kinda glanced over Wilbur x64, it definitely appears to have more options that I thought it had. This seems like a decent candidate, ill have to spend today fooling with it; still concerned it will be too time consuming. Thanks Korash!

Going to look at that right now Waldronate, thanks!

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Here a list of the programs I tried, excluding whatever others I've already deleted. I've been hanging onto a few of them I think I might be able to use in combination with something else to produce the results i'm looking for.

These I used with some depth:
> Earth Sculptor [no go]
> Sculptris [Nope lol]
> Terragen 1, 2, & 3 [no go]
> Universe Sandbox [no go]
> Sketchup 8 [no go]
> Blender 2.73 [maybe if desperate]
> GIMP 2 [maybe]
> Photoshop [maybe]
> Fractal Terrains [might still be of some use]

These I sort of glanced over:
> Wilbur x64 [thought it only had basic paint features]
> Ter_G Terrain Editor [basic paint features, small levels]
> World Machine x64 220 [Candidate, needs further review]
> Picogen-Simplex [Scene rendering]
> QGIS 2.8.1 [Steep learning curve, haven’t made a determination yet]
> SAGA GIS 2.1.2 [Steep learning curve, haven’t made a determination yet]
> Fractal Mapper 8.1F [no go]
> Fractscape [no go]
> Anteworld – 0.8.4.5372 [I think I got the wrong download, doesn’t even look like a terrain editor]
> Inkscape 0.91 [not looking to deal with vector images right now]

Haven’t tried yet:
> Celestia 1.6.1
> L3DT 14.05
> Bryce [don't have a demo or copy yet]

Programs I'm having difficulties getting to run correctly:
> Grome 32 & 64bit
> Carrara 6
> PnP Terrain Creator CE
> Deimos 5 / RGB2HSV.tar
> ER1U / Erode.tar.gz
> Dem2Rad_0.2.1
> GeoTools 12.3