I have a tut about terrain reproduction from Geo-maps and it needs 'pulls STDS'. Personally I have never heard of them but I have the installer ready to open it (is it a plug in??) but don't want to until I know this is not going to be a 12 month course in 'STDS' efficiency. Terrains are something I'd like to do and this tut is about terrain elevation. I don't really want to learn a new program, Vue, Bryce, World builder, ect 'cause one would think Maya can do all that anyway??

There is also something called 'Python' which looks like a simple installer?? I'm not ready to install it before i know what it is.

Any clues??

By the way; how is Maya measures in metres, miles, feet, whatever; is there a standard measurement for the Grid, eg, one square on the grid equals.., what? One square metre, just one unit, ect.. what?