Terragen 2.1 now available

[PorcupineFloyd]

Wonderful! Changelog is sweet :-)

[domdib]

Hoorah!

[mani1602]

Thanks PS!! you´re just in time for Holiday :-)

[reck]

Very nice update. Glad to see you you managed to squash bug 143, no more black triangles 

[Zairyn Arsyn]

thank you planetside!
good timing....

i can't wait to install it this afternoon

[jaf]

Great update!  After doing some very quick tests I think I can get about 20% render time savings.  That's 2 hours off a 10 hour render. 

[Lupina]

Thank you very much 

[rcallicotte]

Wow.  I can't wait to get home!

[tempaccount]

Displacements applied to these objects are not seen by the ray tracer, but the displacement information is interpreted as bump to affect shading.

Does this mean I could actually use an object's bump/normal map while rendering it, or would I still need to figure a way to "map" the bump map into the object geometry? I'm not entirely sure how the image map shader works.

To answer my own question, I just tried this - it works perfect and even more easier than I expected. Excellent way to give additional detail for a mesh. I just plugged the normal map image to the displacement image of the default shader and gave it a little bit of displacement multiplier to compensate for the size of the object.

[ra]

You Planetside-guys are definitely the best of the best of the best of the best 

[matrix2003]

Thank you for the early present!  Will be fun to play with over the Holidays!

Best wishes to all.   - Bill .

[buzzzzz1]

Thanks for all your hard work in getting us this update!

[Linda McCarthy]

Dear Planetside Staff:
Thanks a mil for the update- some awesome improvements- and I'm jazzed!  My renders have definitely sped up!
I appreciate all your hard work.
Thanks again!
Linda

[Oshyan]

Thanks everyone, glad we could get you guys a nice little Christmas present.

- Oshyan

[Henry Blewer]

It certainly has been a wonderful present!