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#21

Terragen Discussion / Iron Age island

Last post by Celestial - March 17, 2025, 05:45:09 AM

I'm working on a project at the moment, based on an island. 
Hmmmnnnn....how to explain it?
It's an alternative history of an island close to where I grew up. The island (through corruption and skullduggery) was sold to a Russian firm that processes bauxite, which is brought in by ship from Africa, Peru, various countries.
When I was a child the island was a wildlife paradise, absolutely beautiful. Now it's a stinking nightmare, turned into settling ponds for the processed ore, leaking into the Shannon.
I'm writing a 'secret history' of the island, set in the Iron Age. Because most of the island has been removed, I have free rein as to what may once have existed there.
This is the island as it is now:
https://earth.google.com/web/search/aughinish+island,+co+limerick/@52.62205208,-9.09057043,3.75756739a,7819.06809219d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=CiwiJgokCUISEpusokpAEWvmI3x_okpAGW0SjgYHFxnAIe4qx6d-HBnAQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA
I have an 1836 OS map of the island, which shows the remains of various raths (iron age circular defensive earthworks, which are dotted all over the landscape in Ireland).
Is anyone interested in doing aerial views of an ancient island? I can describe what the landscape was like before it was destroyed - a lot of the vegetation was quite short, eaten down by goats, plus drifts of yellow gorse, trees dotted around, small ponds.  
Payment and credit if I use the image in my project. 

#22

Image Sharing / Re: Dreaming About The Celesti...

Last post by Celestial - March 17, 2025, 04:03:58 AM

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#23

Image Sharing / Re: Dreaming About The Celesti...

Last post by Celestial - March 17, 2025, 03:46:23 AM

Found this photo taken by a drone. It's several years old, so the trees have matured a bit since then. It's hoped that eventually they'll cover the paths completely so that the paths become tunnels through the trees, and the face is hidden from view until you arrive at the top of the mound. 

#24

Image Sharing / Re: Cirque

Last post by mhaze - March 14, 2025, 05:09:17 AM

Mad i Gaea and modifield in Terragen. You can use both a heightfield and an image map.

#25

Terragen Discussion / Re: NEW TERRAGEN clouds do not...

Last post by Frank_Art - March 12, 2025, 11:33:24 AM

Thanks, I'm getting better and better results

#26

Terragen Support / Re: My License

Last post by digitalguru - March 12, 2025, 05:40:59 AM

With my current i9 it's a shame cause I have some best times on the benchmark chart when I tested the system, but can't seem to use TG with clouded projects without overheating.

Have you thought about undervolting your machine? I had problems with my Threadripper and with a default setup it often went over the max temp and throttled. I don't like overclocking anyway and would rather trade stability and longevity of my CPU over a few extra ghz. I would investigate it fully before trying and do in small increments to check how low you can go before your machine falls over.

#27

Terragen Discussion / Re: NEW TERRAGEN clouds do not...

Last post by pokoy - March 12, 2025, 04:18:54 AM

For new (v3) clouds you'll have to increase voxel resolution (in the optimization tab of the cloud node) depending on the dimension of the cloud node. The default value is way too low.
There's a field showing the current voxel count per axis - as a rule of thumb I always try to get a value of at least 10 voxels in Y axis to get some detail.

#28

Terragen Discussion / Re: NEW TERRAGEN clouds do not...

Last post by Frank_Art - March 11, 2025, 09:24:39 PM

Thanks, I can try tweak those parameters! Everything in the scene is default (color/light) 

#29

Terragen Discussion / Re: NEW TERRAGEN clouds do not...

Last post by Doug - March 11, 2025, 08:34:51 PM

one thing is how many lights do you have?
and can you turn it/them down

check your cloud colour
turn it down a bit

Doug

#30

Terragen Discussion / NEW TERRAGEN clouds do not loo...

Last post by Frank_Art - March 11, 2025, 08:23:31 PM

Hello,
I use terragen4 to render spherical skies. Few weeks ago I upgraded to the latest version and I found that the default quality of the clouds drastically changed. Here I post the first image of a sky done with the previous version and the second image done with the newer version. I'm not sure why it looks like this, maybe I need to tweak some settings to make it look like the old one? Any tip and suggestion is welcome  thanks in advance