shadows and lighting

I have a heightmap, and aqt the moment i am using the hieght as my colour scheme, so the higher the ground the lighhter green. How can i do this with lights and also how can i makle the hills have a shjadow depending on the light??
Cheers

You enable lighting and set material properties for the terrain. Next you send surface normals for the terrain vertices. Finally you can use teh call glColorMaterial(GL_AMBIENT_AND_DIFFUSE); to have the colors you supply per vertex affect the material properties of the terrain.

Terrain self shadowing is a bit more complex and there are many approaches. The surfaces away from the light will be dark if you keep the ambient illumination low.