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Terragen™ v0.9

This list applies to Terragen v0.9.19 for Windows, and lists changes since v0.8.68. Terragen v0.9 for Macintosh should be available in January 2004.

Rendering

Renders much faster than v0.8. Now renders front-to-back and ignores micropolygons that are invisible.
New anti-aliasing option: Extra blended detail (registered users only). This provides extra surface detail and reduces "popping" artifacts in animations.
Reduced sharp shadow triangles by softening the shadow tracing.
Orthographic rendering option (in Camera Settings), with handy Auto Setup feature.
Adjustable pixel aspect ratio (note: this not the same as picture aspect ratio).
Option to generate random clouds on each frame.

Terrain/Landscape

Rearranged Landscape window with larger surface map tree view.
Larger Landscape view as a separate Window, with Enlarge and Shrink buttons.
Landscape sculpt/view window's maximum size is limited by screen resolution.
Landscape sculpt window shows red circle to represent sculpt brush.
Improved terrain sculpting tools, with more control over brush size and intensity.
On the landscape sculpt/view window, holding Ctrl switches the left and right mouse buttons for better tablet control. (eg. in sculpt mode, Ctrl-LMB lowers the terrain while LMB raises it.)
When copying and resizing old terrain, it asks if you want to adjust the point spacing keep the same real-world size.
Terrain Modify dialog: Can display heights in metres, plus other improvements.
Fixed "psychedelic" water colours in landscape view.
Fixed "Combine With" crash for different sizes of Existing and Secondary. (Overall better behaviour with different sized Existing and Secondary terrains, and can resize Secondary terrain when appropriate.)
Fixed freeze from pressing OK in Landscape Settings while Surface Editor is open.
Fixed Perlin generators. They also have increased detail at higher resolutions.
Fixed 8bit raw import for all terrain sizes.

Water

Water shoreline 'surf/foam' effect.
New water settings for "wave roughness variation".
Shadows on water can be disabled via a new option in Lighting Conditions. (Currently not working, v0.9.19)

Other

Default display gamma correction at 2.2 (this is pretty much the sRGB standard).
Default render gamma correction at 2.0, and shadow lightness reduced to 25%.
Script execution can be forced to interpret positions as in metres (Anim Settings).
Scripts can be executed from Anim Settings.
Script execution options for enabling/disabling cam, sunpos and exposure.
WaterLevel script command.
Script Parse Effects capability (will release World/Camera Transform plugin at a later date).
Optional f-stop/t-stop control in Camera Settings for convenience.
Removed 10000-cap on sky size (was included due to an old atmospherics bug).
Cloud altitude is shown in metres if those are the user's chosen units.
Makes backups of files before overwriting them (appends _bak to filenames).
Correctly saves multiple plugin effects to world files and surface maps.
Lightmap displayed at higher resolution in Lighting Conditions window (128x128).
Maximum zoom value increased.
Fixed zoom round-off problem. (Zoom scrollbar no longer feeds back rounded value when executing script.)
"New World" resets cloud layer (except generation parameters), resets surface map, and updates all displays when it's done.
New splash screen design (background image courtesy of Luc Bianco).

Terragen™ v0.9