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Title: Distance is Blue
Post by: baizewizard on March 19, 2010, 05:12:45 AM
OK Guys

My very first Terragen render and my very first problem!
:D
Look forward to comments, good and bad but also have a question relating to the top of the tallest outcrop. You'll notice that it has a flat top. This only appears on the main render. On my test renders at lower resolution it wasn't there. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I have tried rendering a crop of the exact area only and it still does it.
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 19, 2010, 05:27:41 AM
If you used a height field, then used the adjust vertical operator, this would occur. The tallest column rock has hit the 'top' value of the settings.
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: baizewizard on March 19, 2010, 05:40:50 AM
Thanks man
I'll look at that later.
Why would it only occur on the main render at 2560 x 1920 but not on my smaller test renders?
Something to do with amount of pixels involved?
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 19, 2010, 05:42:34 AM
The large render size problem I don't know about. My computer is way too slow to do that size.
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: baizewizard on March 19, 2010, 05:51:49 AM
OK.
Don't think that it's anything to do with a heightfield adjust, I didn't use one.
I'll try an inbetween render tonight to test the results. Frustrating one this!
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: j meyer on March 19, 2010, 11:36:42 AM
Hi there,
one thing you could try is increase the displacement tolerance value
in the planet settings.This cut off thing is a known issue btw and
you should be able to find more about it using the search engine.
Title: Re: Distance is Blue
Post by: baizewizard on March 20, 2010, 02:15:40 AM
Hi J

Yep, that worked.
I found that you should only up it a little though, otherwize you lower the quality of the background.
Thanks very much for your help.