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#91

Terragen Discussion / Re: No displacement underwater...

Last post by Belmont224 - May 18, 2025, 04:11:30 PM

Thank you! That worked.

#92

Terragen Discussion / Re: No displacement underwater...

Last post by Dune - May 18, 2025, 01:41:17 AM

First of all; the amount of detail under water can be increased in the 'advanced-subdivison settings'. Set ray detail multiplier to a higher number than default 0.25. Usually 0.5 will do, but the higher you go the longer the render time.
Then for the faceted part you need to up the Ray detail region (to 360/optimal), or the padding - I think the latter is the best to try first, just slide it to the right.

It's not a bug, btw, but an intentional detail setting, as often underwater is less 'important' and calculation of underwater areas is heavy on the machine. So the default is a 'good average'.

#93

Terragen Discussion / No displacement underwater?

Last post by Belmont224 - May 17, 2025, 10:22:55 PM

Is it a known bug that displacement doesn't work the same underwater than above the water? For example, if I have a fake stone shader on a plane and some of it is above water and some is below (larger/taller rocks and lower rock for example), the parts above the water are displaced normally, the parts below the water looks very faceted, like it would in the preview. Here is a contrived example.

#94

Terragen Discussion / Re: The effect of clouds?

Last post by noahding1 - May 14, 2025, 10:46:55 PM

I'm really looking forward to the update of the next version
It would be great if Terragen Sky could add sun intensity and color control

I want the alpha region of the cloud to be rendered separately later

#95

Image Sharing / "Remains of the Day"

Last post by jhmart1 - May 13, 2025, 09:19:41 PM

Terragen 4

#96

Image Sharing / Re: Galilean Moon Io

Last post by Dune - May 13, 2025, 01:41:39 AM

Good of you to post something here. It's extremely quiet indeed. I think a lot of folkes have gone to Blender or Unreal and such.
Nice scene. Smoke columns are hard indeed, but yours looks good.

#97

Image Sharing / Galilean Moon Io

Last post by RichTwo - May 12, 2025, 12:15:04 PM

Wow... It's been pretty quiet in this section for a while. And while I haven't been inspired enough lately to contribute anything, I consider this as an achievement, minor that it may be.

First of all, many thanks to staff member Kevin Kipper who solved my problem of image mapping onto a planet object. And to Jordan T for his starfield background.
The vapor "column" is three localized cloud / stretched PF density nodes. Its upper limit doesn't extend much further than the top of the image,,, I tried tweaking a "smoke column" clip (Jordan's I believe) but to no avail. If anyone has a better solution, please have at it.

Io, for those who don't know is the innermost large moon of Jupiter. Its surface is free of cratering due to constant resurfacing of its crust. The plumes are probably not due to material shooting directly out from underground, rather it the being much hotter molten sulfurous rock flowing out from vents, contacting the frozen surface which then vaporizes and explodes upwards.

That's the science lesson for today. Test in 15 minutes... 

#98

Announcements / Partial data loss May 2025 (7t...

Last post by Matt - May 11, 2025, 08:24:37 PM

We encountered a partial loss of data from late on Wednesday 7th of May to early Saturday 10th of May, 2025, when we were forced to restore some of our databases from a backup. The data loss affected the forum and the store, including a small number of license purchases and renewals.

Please be assured that we have records of all purchases and subscription renewal payments that were made during that time, and we will make sure that all databases are made whole this week. If you encounter any issues with your licenses, please contact us and we'll get them fixed as soon as possible.

If you created a forum account or made a post during that time, it might have been wiped out.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Matt

#99

Terragen Discussion / Re: The effect of clouds?

Last post by Matt - May 10, 2025, 06:26:33 PM

You can export scenes from Terragen Sky to Terragen 4, and that should give you more controls, but we're going add these settings to Terragen Sky in an update soon.

#100

Image Sharing / City and Landscape Mediterran ...

Last post by Uwe Kronemann - May 07, 2025, 12:40:56 PM

City and Landscape Mediterran (MP4 2025)
Animations and pictures from Terragen4, Poser13 and FlowScape1.5.
(Production with "MovieMaker", Hosting by "DailyMotion")
LINK to DailyMotion:
https://dai.ly/k2yjVuBGEDc5F7D07RW