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Title: How to animate terragen .9 on the Mac?
Post by: taelin on June 08, 2008, 02:30:09 PM
Hi all... First thank you all for reading this.
Is there any tutorial to show how to animate camera of Terragen .9 on the Mac? Please help if you can. Thanks all

Taelin
Title: Re: How to animate terragen .9 on the Mac?
Post by: taelin on June 09, 2008, 07:33:49 AM
PLEASE ANYONE? ;D
Title: Re: How to animate terragen .9 on the Mac?
Post by: red_planet on June 09, 2008, 11:22:55 AM
Have you looked in the "AppleScript Helpers" or the "AppleScript Info and Samples"  folders that are installed when you install TerragenMac ?

As far as I can remember most of the animation features in Terragen are scriptable.

If you have access to a PC as well you could always use Terranim or Campath to generate camera control scripts that can be read by the Mac version for rendering...

rgds

Chris
Title: Re: How to animate terragen .9 on the Mac?
Post by: Oshyan on June 10, 2008, 12:39:28 AM
As Chris said, you have to either use the internal scripting with manual script writing (text file, fairly cumbersome unless you're using to something like POVRay or writing Renderman Shaders), or use Applescript, which again involves some scripting ability. Unfortunately there are no animation helper tools comparable to Terranim or Campath on the Mac. If you can dual boot into XP or use an emulator to run Windows you could use either of those programs, which make the process a lot easier.

- Oshyan