Terragen™ 2 Technology Preview
Technology Preview available for Download now!
Terragen™ 2 Technology Preview is the first public
release of
Planetside Software's new, cutting edge landscape visualisation
software.
The Technology Preview is now available for both Windows and Mac OS X 10.4.x. See below for details on obtaining your free copy.
TG2 Technology Preview features an advanced hybrid micropolygon
renderer with powerful
multi-angle displacement capabilities. It has a versatile procedural
engine that
can be utilised to apply subpixel-level detail to almost any aspect of
a scene. Terragen 2 is capable of rendering billions of polygons in a
single scene. Please visit the Terragen 2 page for more information on the capabilities of Terragen 2.
Terragen 2 Technology Preview is available both as a free download and
as a
pre-purchase option for Terragen 2. 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
Number of Rendered Populations: 3
You may
purchase a commercial license for the Technology Preview which
will remove these feature restrictions and allow you access to more
frequent development releases of Terragen 2. You will also be entitled
to a free upgrade to a final release of Terragen 2 when development is
completed. Please see our
Terragen 2 pre-purchase page for details on
pricing and purchase options.
Please note that the Technology Preview release is aimed mainly at high end users. It
has a powerful and
flexible graphical node/graph editor which is used for creating
networks of
shaders and scene elements. The Technology Preview features a number of
high level shaders
which create more complex scene elements, such as clouds or rocks, as
well as a
low level function node system which allows you to create shaders from
"first principles", using functions and methods that will be familiar
to shader writers. The node editor can be used to unlock the full power
of the
TG2 rendering engine.
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Function Node Network
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We are very aware that many users may find the node based interface
unfamiliar.
We strongly emphasise that the Technology Preview release is aimed at
high end users. We are continuing to develop the user interface to
reduce the
learning curve and make it easier to leverage the power of the TG2
render engine to create scenes of
outstanding realism and complexity.
The Technology Preview is not beta software.
Although it will exhibit some of the basic capabilities of TG2, it does
not contain the full set of features that will exist in the final
Terragen 2 release. Considerable development is underway that will
not be reflected in the Technology Preview release. Most importantly
the Technology Preview has not yet been optimised for speed and
consequently rendering times will not be optimal. As development
progresses we will be putting considerable effort into optimising the renderer,
including making it threaded to best take advantage of multicore/multiprocessor machines.
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Terragen 2 Technology Preview
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15 free plant objects for Terragen 2, courtesy of Greenworks Organic Software.
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