New to Terragen - a few questions

[Largent]

You'll have to pardon my obscene ignorance here but I've only started using Terragen 2 in the past week (its awesome by the way).

Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how to import the files I've been picking up from here and Terranuts. Some are in the form of TGOs and others are TGDs and a few .3ds. I'm trying to create vegatation, snow, and place a few random 3d models in my scenes and cant figure out how to do it for the life of me. If someone could point me in the right direction or provide a very dumbed down explanation of how to go about doing it it would be greatly appreciated. (I hope I don't need anything other than the standard version of TG2 to do these things...)

Thanks!

[tempaccount]

Hey there and welcome! Afraid the tutorials and documentation is mostly all over the place, and the best bet for a new user is to experiment - but to help a new guy out, here are links to previous three "new to terragen" posts, there's bound to be some help there

The standard version limitations are just in render resolution and quality.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8221.0
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8877.0
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8854.0

[Henry Blewer]

Schmeerlap's tutorial is very good for starting Terragen 2 users. Here is a link. Just download the pdf file.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=7733.msg82586#msg82586

[Oshyan]

For adding objects, either in TGO (native) or OBJ format, go to the Objects layout using the button at the top of the interface. Then click the Add Object button on the left, go to Object->OBJ reader or TGO reader. You will have to place each object manually. An easy way to do this is to find where you want to put it in the scene then put your mouse cursor over that point in the 3D preview, right-click and copy coordinates, then go to the properties of that object node and paste into the location coordinate box using the past button on the right (looks like a little clipboard).

- Oshyan