Your Top 5 Most Wanted Features

dandelO · June 14, 2009, 02:19:23 PM

Quoteto rotate and scale through the render preview

Yup, a multitool for transform/scale/rotate would be nice. Good one.

kevnar · June 16, 2009, 11:00:49 PM

For the free version (which I'm stuck using), can you make it so that the render limits are 480,000 pixels maximum instead of straight 800x600 limits? Sometimes I wanna do panoramic pics, of like 800 tall by 400 wide, or 1024 wide by 468 tall, etc., but it doesn't let me. I respect your decision to limit the render size on the free version. All I'm asking is to base it on the total pixels, as opposed to hard-coded dimension limits. Thanks for your consideration.

Henry Blewer · June 17, 2009, 08:09:00 AM

A cool feature on the Amiga was the 'HELP' key. Some programs used this. You could hover over something with the mouse pointer, press the 'HELP' key, and a hypertext window would appear. This gave, usually a simple, explanation of the feature.
It would be a lot of work to set this up. But today, links to the forum posts, wiki, and various tutorials could pop up.

Singular3D · June 22, 2009, 08:49:52 AM

Definitely
- 64bit support
- 360 Panorama renders for using it as IBL source and reflection maps

Vue and Carrara already support spherical cameras for a while, but Terragen would really be an awesome source for such HDR images.

Mohawk20 · June 22, 2009, 12:31:25 PM

Quote from: Singular3D on June 22, 2009, 08:49:52 AM
- 360 Panorama renders for using it as IBL source and reflection maps

Vue and Carrara already support spherical cameras for a while, but Terragen would really be an awesome source for such HDR images.

HearHear!!

teiger · June 25, 2009, 06:47:24 AM

-To save the render progress that you can shout down, or do anything else and then continue render
-Shoutdown after finished render progress
-64 Bit Version

rcallicotte · June 25, 2009, 08:28:36 AM

3. full animation feature set
2. full animation feature set
1. full animation feature set

But, not necessarily in this order.

FrankB · June 25, 2009, 09:05:56 AM

I am entirely sure that you already had you vote, calico!
It's too late now for that wish

Frank

rcallicotte · June 25, 2009, 09:17:11 AM

Rats. You caught me.

I just needed to hear it again.

domdib · June 26, 2009, 06:24:59 AM

One that recently occurred to me: the ability to make multiple crops of a scene in one render pass, so that two or more 'problem' areas can be examined/compared at once.

dandelO · June 26, 2009, 08:10:39 AM

OK, here's one I posted in the open discussion forum...

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6628.0

Quote from: dandelO on June 03, 2009, 06:42:00 PM
Maybe Matt should re-enable the fake internal scattering to the cloud's GI again. Or have a checkbox to enable/disable scattering in GI areas. They look like the pre-release TG2 clouds, that oily look. Cool.

I also used extreme FIS values for the volumetric fire and explosion .tgd's that I made before for the Public Library, I'm not sure these work anymore, either. I must check...

FrankB: Seth said you'd like this in the other thread, lets see if it'll come back at some point, I liked the clouds the way they were before, too...

PG · July 18, 2009, 07:27:27 PM

Can't see this in here but could we have an option for multi-region crops? By that I mean rendering more than one area of a scene in a crop (e.g. an image cropped into vertical thirds, render the left and right crop at the same time, leaving out the centre crop.) I always get a couple of things that I don't like the look of and at the minute I have to either render the whole thing again or render loads of little crops.

sjefen · July 19, 2009, 08:14:16 AM

I'd like to see the GUI become dark grey and the node's more like "Particle Flow". That would be awesome

- Terje

PG · July 19, 2009, 11:40:04 AM

Yeah and maybe use Windows 7's multi touch to sculpt terrain and clouds.

Falcon · July 20, 2009, 04:20:47 AM

Quote from: Singular3D on June 22, 2009, 08:49:52 AM
Definitely
- 64bit support
- 360 Panorama renders for using it as IBL source and reflection maps

Vue and Carrara already support spherical cameras for a while, but Terragen would really be an awesome source for such HDR images.

Use http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6931.0 and a 90° camera, then your favourite panorama tool (I use hugin) to merge them.

Yes, it would be easier to get this right out of TG2, but with just two minutes of extra work, it is doable today. I've got a bunch of HDR panoramas for sale on http://skies.lemuria.org/Panoramas/Panoramas.html that were generated this way.