Well as I asked for an animation forum I better ask a q:
On pressing the
Animation Check button I'm getting two recommendations, to de-select "Fully adaptive" and "Jitter shading points" which I allow Terragen to do for me. (These are settings held in a "hidden" node within the render node). As you can see this has made a considerable degradation in the terrain quality. Any ideas why and more importantly is their a solution that I can use that will not require prohibitively high render detail and AA settings? Also will leaving the settings "pre-animation check" have any bad effect.
The image attached shows the process. Before
Animation check on the left and after on the right.
Cheers
Richard
PS: Just made a quick crop render of the animation and apart from the lower quality I can't see any real difference. There is a little terrain popping in both at the same time and place but I would expect that to be covered by populations and atmospherics. Of course this version is without populations, models and most of the atmospherics and rendered at 0.6,4 (GI 1,2,8) so maybe higher render settings will alleviate the popping but I'm not happy with the low res terrain.
PPS: a little further info here
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=14610.msg142603#msg142603 so yes the quality is expected to be lower but I'm surprised at how much.