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Title: Landscape animation question
Post by: kafreyer on February 01, 2013, 11:22:51 AM
So I'm pretty new to Terragen 2 so bear with me
Im trying to create a lanscape that has animated tectonic activity (ie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIc_lgaa_Bg )
Ive been able to animate the landforms roughly but haven't gotten optimal results
I'm also trying to animate little landslides to heighten the realism but I cant isolate small areas to animate
is any of this possible?
Any help would be great
Thanks
Title: Re: Landscape animation question
Post by: FrankB on February 01, 2013, 11:35:07 AM
That should be possible. What have you tried so far? can you show the project file?
Title: Re: Landscape animation question
Post by: kafreyer on February 01, 2013, 12:49:36 PM
I haven't been saving my tests but here is my basic file.  Ive tried both using the terrain tool and shaders, seems like terrain is the way to go?
Title: Re: Landscape animation question
Post by: FrankB on February 01, 2013, 02:28:59 PM
no you're doing it wrong. There are many other ways, but generally you would want to animate the displacement.
Check out the attached file, where I have "planted" a simple shape shader in the middle of the heightfield and animate the displacement of the simple shape shader. Both are connected through a merge shader.

Hope that helps
Frank
Title: Re: Landscape animation question
Post by: kafreyer on February 01, 2013, 05:32:56 PM
great thanks that works perfectly. 
If i want to animate rocks falling off a rising surface or bits crumbling off the hill, is this possible? It is going to be timelapse footage so the materials wont need to fall through the air, just start at point a and end at point b.