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   graylox
   Moderator

   Terragen™ 2
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   Terragen™ 2 is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen 2 to create the most realistic visualisations possible. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. With Terragen 2 you have complete control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micropolyon displacements, clouds and object distributions. You can reorganise the planetary shading pipeline to suit your goals. Place grass and trees wherever you want, as well as other objects in OBJ format that you can model in third party software. It's easy to find great plants and objects modelled by other Terragen users or elsewhere on the web.

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   Terragen 2 is available both as a free download and as a purchase option for Terragen 2 Deep Edition. The free version may only be used for non-commercial purposes and is limited in the following ways:

   Render Size Maximum: 800x600
   Render Detail Maximum: 1.0
   Antialiasing Maximum: 3
   Maximum Number of Rendered Populations: 3
   Maximum Render Detail for Micropolygon Export: 0.1 ...
   System Requirements:
   PC

   Any version of Windows including 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7
   Minimum 1GB of RAM - 4GB recommended
   Minimum 1Ghz CPU - 2Ghz Dual Core recommended

   Mac

   OS X 10.4 or newer
   PPC or Intel - TG2 is a Universal Binary
   Minimum 1GB of RAM - 4GB recommended
   Minimum 1Ghz CPU - 2Ghz Intel Dual Core recommended
   

   Download Terragen™ 2
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   For the absolute beginners - like me - is the classic version available:
   Terragen™ Classic
   
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   ...Despite the fact that Terragen Classic can be used for professional landscape visualisation projects, it is accessible and easy to get started with. You could be rendering your first landscape image in as little as 15 minutes after installation.

   You can view a gallery of images created by Terragen users here.

   Terragen has a native user interface, using facilities provided by the operating system of the respective platform, as opposed to the custom user interfaces used by many similar applications. This means Terragen can follow the usage conventions of each platform as closely as possible, which ensures that it looks and feels just like the other applications you use and means there is no learning curve with respect to the basic operation of Terragen....
   ...Terragen runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Me, 2000, Vista and 7 (for Intel/AMD & compatibles)...

   
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   Download Terragen™ Classic for Windows
   

   You'll find on the site galleries with lots of images, plugins, and some free plant objects as downloads.

   Did I say it's FREEEE for non-commercial use?
   Pictures and text: http://www.planetside.co.uk/

   graylox (going to create her own island now....)

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   This is really weird. I was talking to a friend on Skype last night about this program. I used to play around with the demo several years ago. This hwas made freeware about 4 years ago, got a copy somewhere but not played much with it since. You can create some amazing scenery that looks like real locations.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Idunnobutiwastold
   Gaming Acolyte

   Thanks, Graylox. :D

   Hi Whiterabbit,
   Your latest posts in the 'GG2G' threads about the digital equivalents to boardgames, brought back to mind the classic approach to board design.
   This quick test demonstrates the principal of generating a printable 'Hex Map', with the help of free software...

   Step 1: Generate a Terrain in 'Terragen'
   
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   Step 2: Overlay a Hex Map in 'Paint.Net'
   
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   Step 3: View the Composite Graphic
   
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   The download links for the required software are here....

   'Create Hexagon Grid' Plugin for Paint.Net:
   http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/3078-

   Paint.Net (Freeware):
   http://www.getpaint.net/

   A Wiki Describing the Traditional Hexagonical Gameboard is here:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_map

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   graylox
   Moderator

   WOW - a superb idea, Idunno.

   Yes, WR, Terragen is not new, I posted this just to recall a powerful programme.
   Like you I gave Terragen a try several years ago, as my old PC was rather slow, I lost all interest in working with the tool. Now I'm happy to see, that not only my machine "grew", but the programme too - and it is still free.
   Looking forward to play around with it.

   graylox

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Same here Graylox. I'm going to check the add-ons later once I've done my emails etc. I'd forgotten how much fun I had playing with this program (though only the demo). I was really surprised when I saw that it was free. (I was looking for editing software as at the time I was looking to start creating objects for Battlefield 2 maps, but as usual i never finished what I was doing. Terragen was advertised with some other software that you could use to create landscapes. Can't remember what the other programs were called. I was hoping i could port over the resultant creations into the Battlefield 2 editor as it seemed a lot more accurate than the BF2 level creation tool.

   Thank you for reminding me about this program.

   I didn't realize that you can also download a free version of Terragen 2, I only saw the end bit of your post. that's really cool. Can't wait to try it out. :)

   Posted 13 years ago #

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