experiments with wilbur and bevel/emboss (dont let the title scare you off...)

[vorropohaiah]

Taking your original height map and applying a gradient to it for coloring, followed by blending the map you have here with a mlutiply operation should look amazingly similar to Wilbur's basic land shader. The advantage that you have here is that the editable gradient map makes it a little easier to get different effects other than straight height-based coloring.

i'll have a go trying that out, thanks