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Title: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: TheSpiritOfWA on May 28, 2017, 05:24:16 AM
Is there a way to export Terragen 4 to Maya? Thanks.  ;D
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Hetzen on May 28, 2017, 09:18:01 AM
Yes. :)
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Hannes on May 28, 2017, 09:32:55 AM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D!!!!!

Actually this is not really a very specific question.
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Hetzen on May 28, 2017, 09:38:09 AM
 ;D

I was going to jump back in. You're right the question is too vague. It very much depends on what your scene is.
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Oshyan on May 29, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
What do you want to export? Terrain? As a heightfield or geometry? Environment or skybox/spherical panorama for HDRI/IBL? Camera and lighting? There are numerous possibilities, but also some limitations. If your intention is to model something in Terragen then export it to Maya and hope to get similar - or even better - render quality vs. rendering it natively in Terragen, that is probably not the best approach. If you want to export assets for use as hold-outs, shadow-catchers, occlusion, etc. that can work better.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: KlausK on May 29, 2017, 06:06:18 PM
hm, looks like the SpiritOfWA left. Cruising the Potomac River again... ::)
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Lollorenjh on September 21, 2017, 04:13:25 PM
Hi, i'm a cg student, sorry for my bad english.. i'd like to know if it's possible to export geometry from terragen to maya (terrain geometry) .
And even texture and hdr.. many thanks

Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Oshyan on September 21, 2017, 06:27:48 PM
You can export terrain geometry with the Microexporter, detailed in the documentation here: http://planetside.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Micro_Exporter
I recommend using only a single render thread, which reduces geometry overlap. But you'll still need to do some geometry cleanup in another application.

There is no built-in texture export. You can render a top-down orthographic image as a workaround.

For HDR/IBL/environment map, just make a spherical render (requires the Professional version) and save as EXR. You have the option of 16 or 32 bit per channel high dynamic range data.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: How to export Terragen 4 to Maya?
Post by: Lollorenjh on September 22, 2017, 01:29:56 PM
Many many thanks for your prompt reply!!!