New user help

[Bandi]

Hi all,

  I've just recently come across Terragen and thought I'd have a go...  Needless to say that I'm pretty lost   

Documentation and/or help on Terragen 2 seems quite scare and I'm struggling to accomplish anything more then the absolute basics.   Is there any good documentation around that will give me a better understanding of how it works?  I've gone through what's in the Docs section of these forums, but there's still plenty unexplained....  To make it worse, I have no prior experience in any 3d generation apps etc... nothing like jumping in the deep end, but hey, you've got to learn somehow!

Thanks
   Anthony

[DiscoBall]

There's a guy's website that is REALLY helpful - MeltingIce's website.

http://network.meltingice.net/

On the left there is PATHS - use that, there are a few really good tutorials there.

[Will]

Hi Bandi, Yes MeltingIce's PATHS site is very helpful also if you have any question just posted here in the fourms and either I or anotuerh will quickly awnser it to the best of our ability.

Regards,

Will

[The Geostation]

Yep meltingice's tutorial site is very good.   However before progressing to that, have you have a go at the pdf tutorial document from the same download site as TG2TP?

Andrew Randle
The Geostation

[Bandi]

Thanks for the link to the PATHS tutorials.  I'll have a read through and see how they go.  It's good to see a forum where there are actually offers to help a newby!

Geostation: What PDF are you referring to? I downloaded TG2 from

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/tg2/tech_preview.shtml 

but unless I'm missing something, I cant see any pdf tutorial there. Can you possible point me to it?

Thanks,
  Anthony

[king_tiger_666]

yeah the pdf that is on the same link as the tg2 download is very useful and shows you how to create a first render.... its worth a read before seeing other tutorials, as it also explains what everything does..

[Bandi]

Ahhh, the big link that clearly states "Documentation"...  They could have made it a bit more obvious