Desert World

[dman66]

This is an old render that I'd like to try recreating the world in tg4. I lost the files but found the image in an old backup drive but not the Terragen file. Image is from 2009 and I have no idea how I created the terrain back then. Probably TG2 or even classic. Any ideas how I could achieve this in Terragen 4? Happy I can recreate the bush distribution and the other planet but the terrain? Not wanting to create a perfect copy just similar.

[Dune]

Just use a twist and shear after you have displaced some mountains.

[dman66]

Thank you. I actually was thinking that might be it.

[Dune]

Here's another way of experimenting with displacements. This is the sort of thing that I did all the time.

[Stormlord]

All the time... LOL....


STORMLORD

[Dune]

Yeah, well, I did sleep 8 hours or so

With this kind of experimenting it's important to notice flaws, like overlapping ground, and spikes, but interesting results can be had. You can also line up some displacements and have it made into color by using a displacement to scalar and have a few of those lines and mix them, displace that, whatever.......

And use masking by PF or slope (after a compute terrain, or compute normal), then mix, etc.