I need some help with Terragen 4.5 creative licence and rendering. I'm happy with the landscape but feel the render is flat. I want it to pop more. I'd like to do as much as possible in Terragen rather than in post work. Any advice on how to improve it will be helpful. I'm also seriously considering the upgrade to Pro just to get access to .exr and layer renders.
Perhaps you could set the atmo density a bit smaller, so the haze is not as intense. It is a huge area, and prone to hazyness, unless you have something dark (trees, rocks) close-up in front.
Or set haze very low and introduce a low soft and small density v2 cloud for haze, which you can mask by a distance shader, so not to have too much haze in front.
You can also experiment with the tonemap possibilities in the render tab, say raise contrast.
Thank you for the advice.