My own personal eye candy: (i hate calling it that, so let's say terrain design)
The cliff volcano: harmless one that explodes on top of a cliff circle, under 5 trigs and still a nice touch
The dead forrest: rotating trees till they're all dead, not just using the gaia ones. this takes time, but it looks awesome when you get it up to a huge forrest. it looks like a fire swept through...
map copied buildings that i made so wierd that you wouldn't even tell what is what... ie, cathedral with things on the side, and things on top, with a wall of frank wonders etc, so it looks like the streets of london, like in real life.
dam: bridge on the edge of cliff, with assorted gaia etc, looks genius and there are loads of variations on this one...
hold on, lemme think of some more. I have the ultimate, but you will have to wait till my rpg comes out.
elf, can I email a scen to ya with all my terrain testing?
my voice cracks when I sing from my heart. -thrice DGDN ...is kinda workin!...