Pushing the Limits

[TheBlackHole]

This is a TG1 render.

[Mahnmut]

Because he can!

[TheBlackHole]

Here's another one.

[TheBadger]

both of these would make great foogsnagles!

[Oshyan]

A TG1 (Classic?) render of a TG2/3 image? :-P

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

^^ Oh man! I did not even consider it. This is very far down the rabbit hole, Oshyan. If people start like that, it won't be long before even the artist does not know whats really what. Complete mind screws for everyone on tap. Sounds wonderful.

[Oshyan]

This was actually kind of a trend at one point in TG Classic rendering. I'm curious if that's what's actually going on here though. If so, it's really not much more than a gimmick, but the original TG2/3 render looks nice anyway.

- Oshyan

[Upon Infinity]

This was actually kind of a trend at one point in TG Classic rendering. I'm curious if that's what's actually going on here though. If so, it's really not much more than a gimmick, but the original TG2/3 render looks nice anyway.

- Oshyan

Well, we know Terragen Original can't do planets, and we know it can't do clouds beneath the camera.  If I were a betting man, and a creative genius (and I'm at least one of those things),  I'd say this was a case of inverted camera, looking "up" at the blue sky with clouds, and just letting a hint of a black, nothing landscape "beneath" the camera, with a wide angle to give the impression of distance, and planet curvature. 

[TheBlackHole]

Well, we know Terragen Original can't do planets, and we know it can't do clouds beneath the camera.  If I were a betting man, and a creative genius (and I'm at least one of those things),  I'd say this was a case of inverted camera, looking "up" at the blue sky with clouds, and just letting a hint of a black, nothing landscape "beneath" the camera, with a wide angle to give the impression of distance, and planet curvature. 

It can, actually. No camera trickery here, this is a real planet with the camera in orbit.



The clouds are an image texture applied to a flat terrain using SOPack. TG1 can only generate simple Perlin clouds.

[TheBlackHole]

Different planet this time. Again, this is a flat terrain - all of the shading is from the texture.

[Upon Infinity]

Well, we know Terragen Original can't do planets, and we know it can't do clouds beneath the camera.  If I were a betting man, and a creative genius (and I'm at least one of those things),  I'd say this was a case of inverted camera, looking "up" at the blue sky with clouds, and just letting a hint of a black, nothing landscape "beneath" the camera, with a wide angle to give the impression of distance, and planet curvature. 

It can, actually. No camera trickery here, this is a real planet with the camera in orbit.



The clouds are an image texture applied to a flat terrain using SOPack. TG1 can only generate simple Perlin clouds.

That's right, they added that in a later update.  Thanks for the refresher course. 

[Oshyan]

The important point is that the atmosphere doesn't render when you're above it in TG Classic, so there's really not much that Classic is doing of value here. TG3 actually renders planetary scenes pretty quickly and you get a lot more control and real planetary atmosphere... But perhaps the novelty of the limitations is more your interest.

- Oshyan

[TheBlackHole]

The important point is that the atmosphere doesn't render when you're above it in TG Classic, so there's really not much that Classic is doing of value here.

The atmosphere renders, just not the cloud layer which I wouldn't use for this anyway.

...you get a lot more control

I already have almost complete control using this approach. By editing the texture in Photoshop, I can add whatever I want to the planet.

[Oshyan]

Sure, but the majority of the work is being done in Photoshop. There's not a lot of point to rendering it in TG.

- Oshyan