Well, punt has been busy with a new set of tools, beginning with his Map Generator 2 package (the sticky in this forum). It takes a bmp for terrain and a bmp for altitude and generates a mul file for any size map. As far as tutorials, look
here for the old tutorials (some of which don't really apply to that program, but most of which will be helpful. There is a quick-start tutorial for Map Generator 2
here. I believe punt has (or is working on) a static placement tool as well. punt has a forum for his tools
here.
Good luck!