So new I haven't even downloaded yet. I've got a number of questions including which version I should download but I suppose I should explain what I want to do first and then why I am leaning more towards classic.
I want to create a purely pretend country. For beginning purposes, a simple terrain with hills, lakes, ocean, rivers and basic trees and grass is fine. My eventual goal probably years from now is to have a 3d walk-through (maybe even somewhat interactive) world with individual plants in which I have created on a modeling program I have yet to learn (so much fun... I hope), buildings, roads and maybe even people if possible. I will probably be using Blender since it's free and I will be using the free version here (unless by some miracle I manage to figure out how the program works and I do a really great job and can make some money with it so I can spend $1000 on a program [cringe... cough, choke]).
First I am using a laptop.... it
SAYS 4GB of RAM ha ha ha I think some programmer who wrote that is getting a good laugh everyday knowing it's really only 1GB since this PC runs slow and I have to keep all my files on an ext. HD or it won't run at all. I have a hard enough time keeping windows explorer open (I swear my old 518MB ram desktop from 6 years ago was faster then this)! Now it's true some days are better than others but very frustrating when it will freeze up trying to open Paint.
Next. I am fairly technical and catch on quick most of the time but I do need good tutorials and if you think adobe's tutorials were good than we have a problem because I didn't understand a thing they said. Too much unknown jargon without any simple explanations first.
I need at the least a glossary of terms preferably in dummie English because when someone says "a sector is a node of annotation regarding a existential point in space who's characteristics are none existent"... it's just gibberish. (that phrase was supposed to be funny so you can laugh if you want). I also need some very basic tutorials that get me familiar with the program. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful and maybe I'll bake you some cookies
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Okay so I think the best way to go about making said 3d map is to create a flat topographical?? map using some program I don't know about and morphing it somehow into Terragen and suddenly I have a land mass??? ha ha ha too easy most likely. But I'm still hoping there is and someone can tell me where.
I also need said land mass to be approx. 250,000 square miles (roughly the size of Texas) but I have no idea how to get said map to that size.
I have gone through and read many of the posts so far in the forum but didn't see anything I really understood (except the beautiful pictures everyone has designed) but maybe I just need to download first to get what anyone is talking about.
so recap....
which program
glossary
very beginning basic dummie tutorial
program for a flat map that will convert to Terragen with some idea of how to size it
Thanks for reading about my stupidity and I hope you enjoyed my sarcasm