I see Terragen everywhere !

[PcXT]

Hi,
Watching TV shows, the last Game of Thrones episodes, the MacOS Sierra and the Protonmail wallpapers, even pictures from my friends around the world, I can't help thinking every landscape I see is computer generated.

Have you've been through this ? Do you think it is normal, as I'm quite new to the software ?
The other option would be that you've taken over the world and that nothing is real anymore...

[Asterlil]

I'm sure the last option is true. 

[Hannes]

Even though I'm not aware, that I've taken over the world (I like that notion... ), I think, that it happens to everyone here in this forum, that you can't stop thinking in TG. Be it clouds, terrain or anything else in nature. Even when I'm on vacation, I always think, how can this or that be done in TG. Some sort of addiction, I guess, but I consider it a mental training.

[WAS]

Even though I'm not aware, that I've taken over the world (I like that notion... ), I think, that it happens to everyone here in this forum, that you can't stop thinking in TG. Be it clouds, terrain or anything else in nature. Even when I'm on vacation, I always think, how can this or that be done in TG. Some sort of addiction, I guess, but I consider it a mental training.

I'm going to have to echo what Hannes has said. I too "Think in Terragen". When I'm out looking at the skies, and landscapes underneath. Whether it's rock forms or forests, or whatever, I can't help but think of how to recreate these sights in Terragen.

[archonforest]

It is pretty normal hehe. I called this phenomena many years ago: Terragenitis...
There is no cure by the way...lol!

[N-drju]

You are addicted to Terragen if...

- You "populate" trees rather than just plant them.
- You try to fly through the ground and are surprised you can't.
- When taking a look to the sky when waking up, you think someone must have hit the "random seed" button while you were sleeping.
- You don't take pictures with a smartphone. You "render" them instead.
- You can breathe underwater because, after all, it's just a mesh...
- It takes you six to seven seconds to travel 1500 kilometers...
- ...and three to four seconds to climb a mountain 3000 meters high.
- You are able to grow a palm in winter or a spruce in the middle of the desert and that is without using a single drop of water!
- You can make the sun rise in the west.
- You have an ability to not cast a shadow.

[PcXT]

N-drju you made my day

[cyphyr]

You see a glorious sunset and think ... hmm, it's cool but I'd have tweaked the contrast a bit and the lead in scale is too low ...

[Asterlil]

...You're working in Photoshop and you try to rotate the image...

[N-drju]

Or use arrows to walk instead of legs.

[PcXT]

 Hahaha !
It's true for every kind of art. The painter sees shapes and colour, the sound recordist hears frequencies and stereo field...

Am I right though about TG or similar software widely used in the industry? I know for tv, but even advertisement posters make me think about CG landscapes...

[Asterlil]

Since I learned how to model in Blender I look at every object in terms of its basic forms. Conversely, I find that I can't model something unless I learn how it works, until I understand what it does. There is beauty and complexity in even the everyday things.

[bobbystahr]

You are addicted to Terragen if...

- You "populate" trees rather than just plant them.
- You try to fly through the ground and are surprised you can't.
- When taking a look to the sky when waking up, you think someone must have hit the "random seed" button while you were sleeping.
- You don't take pictures with a smartphone. You "render" them instead.
- You can breathe underwater because, after all, it's just a mesh...
- It takes you six to seven seconds to travel 1500 kilometers...
- ...and three to four seconds to climb a mountain 3000 meters high.
- You are able to grow a palm in winter or a spruce in the middle of the desert and that is without using a single drop of water!
- You can make the sun rise in the west.
- You have an ability to not cast a shadow.

guilty as charged...I like the not casting a shadow without being a vampire the best.

[ajcgi]

I recently toured Britain taking many photos including a lot of landscapes. One thing I kept thinking was how some of them would be a long project to create in Terragen. North Welsh mountainsides, heavily scarred by slate mining are a great example. Distributions of stones would be one thing but huge spoil heaps of discarded slate is something else. I said 'wow' a lot.

[PcXT]

Have some of you tried to recreate actual pictures you've taken ?
It would be cool to see a gallery with real vs fake landscapes