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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well folks, I got my hands on Terragen. And it's a really nifty program. I've started making pretty cool scenes in this. Here are my first tries, when I barely understood how to use the program:

Terrain 1
Terrain 2
Terrain 3

Regrettably, I managed to create two scenes that, when I went to render them, the program froze (this is understandable, considering it hasn't been released as of yet) However, once I figured out how to use everything, I created a world that should prove very useful for creating many scenes. Here's the first scene:

Scene 1

This scene took my PC, a Celeron 500 with 64 MB RAM 49 minutes 52 seconds to render. It contains 676723 quadrilaterals. Pretty sweet, eh?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Very, very nice...but, 50 minutes?

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Posted by MerloMo on :

Let me just say, your latter attempt is a hell of a lot better than your early work!

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Hmm.. that 3D landscape program appears to do the exact same stuff as Bryce 3D, except a little more realistic textures.

What else can it do? With Bryce you can make 3D animations, nature and city landscapes and...well really that's mostly about it. I have it on my comp and never use it, I really out to get back into it.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well, Terragen is only in the deveolpment stages. The version I have is 0.8. It can only make land, sky, and water so far. I hear they're going to be putting trees in it or something. I don't know aobut cityscapes though.

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Posted by Yakaspat The Trekker (Member # 355) on :

Very cool. I can't wait till they give the software the ability to plant trees, shrubs, and, dare we hope, buildings. It would be really cool to use Terragen to make a pretty little value, import some BattleTech Mechs or Starfleet structures!

Good work Chris.
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