Terragen

[Brynn]

anyone know how to use it?

 

[Alkoran]

For anyone that doesn't know what it is, you can get it here:
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

FOA Mods: At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use.

 

[Brynn]

I dont want to know what it bloody is i want to know how to play with it

 

[Alkoran]

Originally posted by Brynn
I dont want to know what it bloody is i want to know how to play with it

Yeah, but I wanted to know what it was, and now I've found out.

Plus if lot's of people download it we have more chance of working out how to play with it

 

[Brynn]

i wanna make stuff like this :

 

['Shy]

Terragen™ is a work-in-progress scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use.

 

[Sibanac]

I just made a huge pair off nockers

 

[jilson]

Originally posted by Brynn
i wanna make stuff like this :

you need a big glacier to form a lovely Valley like that.

 

[old.m0000]

or a copy of
GodTools version 1.0.1

freely downloadable from heaven for any budding deity.

 

[Tasans]

I've downloaded it ages ago, but there are so many pixels it make my eyes bleed.
And the best thing i made was a crappy river

 

[Brynn]

I tried to arse about with it but it was too complex. I will play with the tutorials when i have time.

 

[bult]

http://www.discreet.com/3dsmax/

 

[kirennia]

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bianco/index_en.html


bloody hell is that a powerful program! Some of those images actually look real

 

[Alkoran]

Anyone know how I can get a decent poly-count on Terragen....? My landscapes just look blocky.

 

[boni_ofdavoid]

Originally posted by bult
http://www.discreet.com/3dsmax/

texturing in max sux. max crashes a lot too. Try Maya, most 3D developers I know switched to it. Theres a free version:-


http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/index.shtml

 

[kirennia]

Originally posted by Alkoran
Anyone know how I can get a decent poly-count on Terragen....? My landscapes just look blocky.

Theres a horizontal scroll bar just below the 'render preview' button in which you can turn up the detail.....looks very nice when up at 5th notch.

Be warned that changes the quality of both the preview and the actual thing so turn it down again when previewing or else its a waste of time

 

[Brynn]

hey kire post ur pics u were bragging about

 

[Conchabar]

Originally posted by boni_ofdavoid
texturing in max sux. max crashes a lot too. Try Maya, most 3D developers I know switched to it. Theres a free version:-


http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/index.shtml

wtf u on about max never crashes with me

 

[bult]

me neither.

3dsmax is still the most commonly used for game development im quite sure.

 

[Jonaldo]

If you register Terragen it gives you higher resolution option. I used it quite a bit a while ago and made some images for my windows desktop. Can do some nice things with it.

 

[ChillyDawg]

thats quite a sleek proggy, making some pretty nice landscapes out of it, on best setting etc with a big rez imagine they almost real its scary!

 

[Kurik BHM]

bryce 3D rox

 

[old.m0000]

paint rox imo

 

[Brynn]

Terragen is so cool. Pissing about with it now. I will post a piccy when im done

 

[Brynn]

http://www.geocities.com/psyco_a_go_go/valley.jpg

My work

its geocities. put a questionmark at the end of the url if its not visable

 

[Brynn]

bump i wanna show off my ace-ness

 

[Tilda]

its pretty cool,
how do i change the altitude of the camera?

 

[Brynn]

I think by clicking and making the V kinda bigger

 

[boni_ofdavoid]

Originally posted by Conchabar
wtf u on about max never crashes with me

Well each to their own, it all depends what 'features' you use, plugins etc. On its own Max is quite stable, but theres a hell of a lot of stuff that will crash it / lock your pc up etc, at least thats the experience of the 3D artists I worked with (screams of 'max has crashed again'!).

Maya has a much better scripting language to let you really get the most out of it & texturing in max sucks. Our development used to be 100% max, after a while we did 50% max 50% maya, and at the end of the day most people from artists to programmers agreed that Maya > Max and we dropped Max support.

If max is cool for you stick with it, im just relaying the experiences of a development house with over 100 staff, and saying if your gonna look for a 3D modelling package I would at least investigate Maya before buying Max...

 

[kirennia]

Originally posted by Tilda
its pretty cool,
how do i change the altitude of the camera?

yeah, click on the picture where it shows the angle.