Thanks everyone
I added a few new images to the first post.
Also, you make your own distant terrains, right?
yes
With blender?
partially. For me, I'm just using it to put a hole in the distant terrain mesh, map the texture, and convert everything over to a sims 3 file format.
Any chance you know of a good tutorial?
There aren't any that are particularly made for dts, but I would recommend the one linked below as it supplies almost every step that I needed for the blender part.
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:Creating_An_End_Table_In_Blender_2.5_Part_1#Step_1
Your terrains have such natural sculpting, do you use some kind of program to generate the weathering of the landscape?
On all of my previous worlds, I stuck to hand painting and sculpting. For this one, however, a program called World Machine was used for the majority of these things. From comparing Ea's painting to that of this world, my best guess is that they also use this tool, as a similar erosion style is evident in each.
