This was a very pleasant read and brought back fond memories of the days of Novalogic Commanche and the followup Commanche 3D, which was one of my favoured network games back in the day - many a Friday afternoon spent blasting co-workers out of the sky ..
Voxels are a pretty neat graphics technology. For the fans of such style, Voxatron (from Lexaloffle, the PICO8 crew) is a pretty great environment for experimenting with the subject - its a fun game, but also a neat design/experimentation environment as well... https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
Also brought to mind Vista and VistaPro scenery generation / terrain rendering programs. Used to play with them a lot to produce pictures. Terragen is the only program I know of in that space these days.
This is the first thing that came to mind for me too! I loved VistaPro so much. I got a copy in one of those old programming books you used to buy with the CDs. It also came with PolyRay and some old-school VRML tutorials.
I had VistaPro with the Mars maps on my Amiga 2000 and 1200 back in the early 90s; I should dig those machines out someday (no idea if the floppies still work, tho - I have tons of Fred Fish stuff, too)...
Voxels are a pretty neat graphics technology. For the fans of such style, Voxatron (from Lexaloffle, the PICO8 crew) is a pretty great environment for experimenting with the subject - its a fun game, but also a neat design/experimentation environment as well... https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php