Haze...

[CornFlake]

Hello.

Normally I use pre-made atmospheres for my scenes because I'm not that great at making them myself. Anyway.. I'd like to completely remove the distance haze from the atmosphere I'm using at the moment, but I'm having no luck. So my question is... how do I do that ? probably something simple I'm guessing.

[Matt]

You can completely remove the haze if you don't mind the sky turning black. If you want to keep the sky then you will to keep at least some haze or atmospheric blue, and then the question is how you balance that between the sky and the terrain. If you reduce the haze density or atmospheric blue density but want to keep the sky the same, you should increase the "half heights" to compensate ("exp height" in Terragen 2). For example, if you use 1/10th of the density, use 10x the half height. This should keep the sky looking the same if your camera has an altitude of 0. At other altitudes you might need to experiment with different half heights to get the sky you want.

Matt

[Matt]

Oh, I almost forgot. As you are using Terragen Classic, there is an easier way. The amount of haze on your terrain depends on the scale of the terrain. Setting this to a smaller size in metres should reduce the apparent haze.

The same applies to Terragen 2, but usually there are more elements in a Terragen 2 scene which would be more difficult to scale down.

Matt

[CornFlake]

Cheers, I'll have a tinker with those settings tomorrow 

[efflux]

The same applies to Terragen 2, but usually there are more elements in a Terragen 2 scene which would be more difficult to scale down.

Matt

I would suggest that this is a very important point, especially for beginners. Get the scales of things close to realistic real world sizes to make thing easier.

[CornFlake]

All sorted now cheers for the help