Hi guys,
as you may have noticed I haven't posted anything for a while now.
After I had finished my "Silence of the lambs" renderings, there was no inspiration at all left.
I already wrote Ulco a PM about that, since he is one of my (if not THE) oldest companions here.
My original background is drawing. I don't remember a time in my childhood, when I didn't draw.
However, when I started to work with computer graphics, especially Terragen, I completely stopped drawing. I just didn't want to. I had no interest in it anymore for almost twenty years.
Recently I met with my daughter, who likes to draw and paint as well. She asked me, why I don't draw anymore, and I told her, that I had lost my passion for it, but the moment we were talking I felt a subtle drive to try it again. Which I did, and I loved it.
So I began to focus more and more on pencil and paper.
And the passion for Terragen silently went away. Maybe for some more reasons than just the lack of inspiration.
During the last few years I had the impression, that Terragen's development wasn't really going on. I'm aware, that Matt is working on a lot of stuff, but sadly Terragen Sky for example doesn't seem that interesting for me personally. I missed some really necessary beefy improvements in the main program. And I miss the active communication and interaction between staff and members (and testers!), that once made this forum so unique. Maybe the lack of it is one of the reasons, that the forum sometimes seems to be "dead" for days.
I know, there's the Dischord channel, but perhaps I'm too old for that. To me it doesn't have the "family"-feeling, that the original forum has.
So guys, I don't know, when (or if) I will do anything with Terragen in the future. Who knows...
I'll be here from time to time taking a look, what's happening.
Keep up the good work!!! I wish you all the best, forum companions and Planetside staff!!
Take care!!
Yours
Hannes
P.S.: I'm writing it here in the Terragen Discussion thread, since it is Terragen related, I guess... ;-)
