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General => Terragen Animation => Topic started by: Aerometrex on October 24, 2012, 08:29:50 PM

Title: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Aerometrex on October 24, 2012, 08:29:50 PM
Thanks Planetside for your amazing software and allowing me to put this video together.

http://youtu.be/ABdIwKpBLQw (http://youtu.be/ABdIwKpBLQw)
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Hannes on October 25, 2012, 02:58:24 AM
Wow, this is really impressive. So the movie was rendered in TG?
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Andrew March on October 25, 2012, 08:00:24 AM
Nope, doesn't look that way at all. If I had to hazzard a guess it seems that very little if anything is terragen and it looks more like someone pluging thier services. You see this on a lot of art forums recently. People claiming Art when really all they are doing is spamming and advertising thier products.
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: jo on October 25, 2012, 08:31:48 AM
Hi Andrew,

Check out this thread:

http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=13662.0

I particularly liked this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxY4eeN7co

Impressive stuff.

I would be interested to know if the video posted was done in the same way, I hope so :-).

Regards,

Jo
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Bjur on October 25, 2012, 01:03:07 PM
Just awesome!
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Aerometrex on October 28, 2012, 06:51:22 PM
Hi All,

Thanks for the feedback.
First of all Andrew, I'm not trying to sell our services. I'm just showing how TG is being used in the geospatial community to generate realistic terrain using real GIS data.
In the latest video, we are not using heightfield shaders with an image map draped on to of it like the previous video we made.
We used directly imported textured .obj. TG is used for camera movements, sun effects and water level rise.

Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Oshyan on October 30, 2012, 01:16:01 AM
I can understand a bit of skepticism, but in truth I think this speaks to the versatility of Terragen that the results produced really look so different to most other work shown here (and hence the questioning over where/how TG is being used in this). So, nicely done! And glad to see that TG has become such a key part of your workflow.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: TheBadger on November 06, 2012, 04:50:32 AM
Very cool! And Im very glad for this thread. I was looking for your others posts for my reference catalog. The post you made before is the reason I started learning how to use sat data.

Havn't got results like yours, or even close. But at least I know that it can somehow be done.
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: rcallicotte on November 15, 2012, 11:46:58 AM
Excellent.  I recognized the construction site from somewhere else, but I don't remember where.  Was it a DAZ model?
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: Aerometrex on November 21, 2012, 10:11:22 PM
Quote from: calico on November 15, 2012, 11:46:58 AM
Excellent.  I recognized the construction site from somewhere else, but I don't remember where.  Was it a DAZ model?

Cheers.
The construction site is the New Royal Adelaide Hospital. All the 3D models are generated from aerial photogrammetry. They are not already pre-made objects.
Title: Re: photorealistic 3D models of real urban and natural environment
Post by: rcallicotte on November 25, 2012, 08:25:18 AM
Thank you.  I know where I saw it (something very close to it) - it was the CryEngine upcoming release and it was beautiful.  What I'm wondering is if they used the same site for their demo.  Great work, by the way!!   ;D

Quote from: Aerometrex on November 21, 2012, 10:11:22 PM
Quote from: calico on November 15, 2012, 11:46:58 AM
Excellent.  I recognized the construction site from somewhere else, but I don't remember where.  Was it a DAZ model?

Cheers.
The construction site is the New Royal Adelaide Hospital. All the 3D models are generated from aerial photogrammetry. They are not already pre-made objects.
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