Hi everyone, need help for Canyon project.

[RikkTheGaijin]

Hello everyone.
I'm absolutely new to Terragen, and I need your help.

I'm currently working on a project that requires me to create a Canyon. I checked the gallery on this website, and I found three particular images that caught my attention:
http://planetside.co.uk/images/rapidgallery/slides/e61261b53e4e2b2d1342794d14ee261f~martinh-190311.jpg
http://planetside.co.uk/images/rapidgallery/slides/d1d9bbca4c5bc91b40a11fab95c57209~marcellod-displacement.jpg
http://planetside.co.uk/images/rapidgallery/slides/e61261b53e4e2b2d1342794d14ee261f~martinh-190311.jpg

I searched the forum for tutorials, but I found only very old ones (back to 2009/2010), so I was wondering if some of you could point me in the right direction to how to create those nice Canyon rocks with Terragen 3. Any links to a tutorials or direct example would be greatly appreciate.

Thank you for your time.

Riccardo

[RikkTheGaijin]

Anyone?

[Urantia Jerry]

Hello and welcome to the Forum.


You might try Geek at Play (www.geekatplay.com) as he has a couple of Canyon Tutorials done in World Machine which you can download for free at www.world-machine.com.  Geek at play has several free tutorials at his site, and also on You Tube, but I can not remember if the Canyon tutorials are free or not.


Once again welcome, and good luck with Terragen.

[RikkTheGaijin]

Thank you Jerry! I will watch all the tutorials for sure!
Just a question though, isn't World Machine a different software? Aren't they competitors? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I just don't know. Thank you!

[Urantia Jerry]

Different software - yes, do they compete - no.  World Machine does not "render" a picture like Terragen does, it merely helps you to create a height-field that is imported into Terragen, where the rendering happens.  It allows you to have more (exact?) control over the creation of your terrain.  -Jerry

[jdent02]

World machine is great for making specific types of terrain like canyons.  You could probably do it with a painted shader in Terragen but the results will be hard to control.  Plus with World Machine you can add very realistic erosion effects to the terrain, which is something that Terragen still doesn't have an easy way of doing.

[RikkTheGaijin]

I watched the free tutorials, both Terragen and World Machine. However I couldn't find any that showed how to get the type of rocks like the ones I linked in my first post. It seems World Machine can only create big landscapes, but I need closeup details...

[Oshyan]

Try these perhaps:
http://www.cgscenery.com/arid_dl/
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15604

- Oshyan