Exporting Terrain via the Micro Exporter
In this post, we’ll export terrain from Terragen as textured 3D geometry for use in other applications like Blender and Unreal Engine. A common method of exporting terrain relies on…
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Exporting Terrain from Terragen
So you’ve created a procedural landscape in Terragen and want to export it to another package like Blender, Unreal Engine, Maya, etc. Where do you start? The answer depends on…
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GPU Sky in Development
We’re making a GPU renderer. Terragen is the go-to solution for big skies and planetary views. This is, in part, because of its use of procedural systems, a “big scene,…
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Script-it-Yourself: Kelvin Sunlight Colour with Terragen RPC
In the previous two posts, Hello RPC! – Part 1 and Hello RPC! – Part 2 we wrote a simple program in the Python programming language to modify an open…
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Hello RPC! Part 2 – Error Handling
Wouldn’t it be great if everything worked exactly as it was supposed to and nothing ever went wrong? Sadly, life and programming don’t always work that way! When writing an…
read moreHello RPC! Part 1 – Scripting for Terragen
Editor’s note: This post was originally published June 23, 2023 and has been updated to reflect improvements to the terragen_rpc module. In this post we’ll take a look at Terragen’s…
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Terragen in the Classroom: Wings Over the Rockies
The widespread utilization of Terragen 4 in film production, game development, digital art, and scientific data visualization is well-known. What may come as a pleasant surprise is to learn of…
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Rendering in the Cloud – Part 2
In part 1 of this blog series, we took a look at how to prepare a Terragen 4 project for rendering on a cloud based render farm. In this post…
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Rendering in the Cloud – Part 1
Outsourcing your renders to a render farm can save you time when rendering long animation sequences, or when you need to render images at much higher quality or resolution. In…
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Fun with Vector Displacements !
In this video our very own Kevin Kipper will take you through the process of using Vector Displacements with ZBrush, and how Terragen and ZBrush can work together in a…
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Featured Artist: Hannes Janetzko
Hannes Janetzko Hannes is a well known and long time Terragen user. He’s created some very non-standard and often ‘non-Terra’ Terragen images. We took some time to sit down with…
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Featured Artist: Luc Bianco
Luc Bianco Luc Bianco is one of the most well known and prolific long time users of Terragen. Luc was the artist behind many of the earliest Terragen images, which…
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Tips and Tricks: UDIM and Multi-tile Workflow for Terragen
Texture mapping is a vital part of creating realistic representations of objects in 3D. For many years the near-universal standard for representing texture map coordinates, shape, etc. was “UV Mapping”.…
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Support Diaries: Scene optimization example #1
In the course of our support activities, we often get user scenes that we are able to significantly optimize, improving render time and/or quality and increasing overall productivity for the…
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Support Diaries: How to fix Quadro performance issues in Terragen
We have identified a rare but potentially severe performance issue for those using Terragen on a Windows system with an Nvidia Quadro graphics card. When the drivers for these cards…
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Tips and Tricks: Working with PBR materials
It used to be that every application had its own particular way of handling shader and material setups, even when dealing with the same basic kinds of image-based textures. This…
read moreSupport Diaries: When to use Terragen vs. other applications
We’re back with another Support Diaries entry. We recently had a user in our forums asking how they should decide which programs to learn and buy to accomplish their scene…
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Support Diaries: Realistic Atmosphere for Matching Reference Photos
It’s time for another entry in our Support Diaries series, again drawn straight from an in-depth support case discussion. This time we take a look at how to use Terragen’s realistic atmosphere…
read moreSupport Diaries: Archviz in Terragen
Today we’re kicking off an ongoing series where we publish interesting and useful support cases. We’re calling this Support Diaries. This time we cover a couple of options for architectural…
read moreSupport Diaries: Overview
Recently we noticed we’ve been having some really great discussions with some of our customers in private support emails, and we realized it could be beneficial to share some of…
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