After a lot of research, I settled on Vue 6 Infinite as what seemed like the best 3D software for such a landscape-intensive project.
The software arrived today and I quickly loaded it up and got to playing ... I mean, learning.
And now I'm really scared, because this puppy is sloooooooooooowww. I've been doing most of my 3D work in Lightwave 3D and its render times are an order of magnitude or better than Vue's. Even moving objects around in a relatively simple environment gets all laggy on my venerable 2.8GHz P4 machine. Fortunately, I'm getting a new workstation soon, which should help a lot.
Granted, Lightwave doesn't have nearly so many features for this kind of project - trees, grass, USGS import, what have you - but I'm pretty disappointed with the program's performance so far. I'll have to figure something out or I'm going to be in big trouble when it comes to final render time.
Fortunately, I should be getting a new workstation in for the project in the next week or two. Hopefully, that'll help out a bit.
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