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#21
Terragen Support / Re: Cloud rendering switches f...
Last post by midnight.mangler - October 21, 2025, 04:30:49 AM
Thank you so much for these tips! Greatly appreciated :)
#22
Terragen Discussion / Script to render out several c...
Last post by hipshot - October 21, 2025, 03:37:48 AM
Hi guys!

Back in the days when I was using T1, I had a script that allowed me to render and save multiple images. It was so I could make a sky box out of it without having to sit and render and save all six images manually.

I think the script actually rotated the camera, rendered and saved.

Is there anyway to automate T4 to do the same?

Thanks in advance.
#23
Image Sharing / Re: All these worlds...
Last post by raymoh - October 21, 2025, 03:04:27 AM
Thanks!
#24
Image Sharing / Re: All these worlds...
Last post by Dune - October 21, 2025, 01:53:01 AM
Terrific. Sky is great!
#25
Image Sharing / Re: All these worlds...
Last post by raymoh - October 21, 2025, 01:19:23 AM
Another view of the planet Zavijava IV, my hypothetical fourth planet of the star Beta Virginis.
This polar region extends around the North Pole of this young world, the South Pole being a sea, without landmass.
The northern landmass of the supercontinent is cold and snowy, but there is little ice. The climate of the polar regions is warmer than on Earth, the weather often foggy and stormy.
At the horizon, the two moons of this planet can be seen. They are of different size, but due to their orbits they appear optically almost the same size and can occasionally "eclipse" each other, similar to the Moon sometimes covering the Sun during a solar eclipse.
#26
Terragen Support / Re: Cloud rendering switches f...
Last post by Kevin Kipper - October 20, 2025, 02:02:09 PM
Thanks for sharing the project file.  The source of the noise is in the indirect lighting.  By adding a Render Layer I was able to save out the direct and indirect lighting elements and easily see the noise pattern.

You'll need to increase the Anti-aliasing value to clean up the noise.  This will increase the render time, but you can also reduce Easy Cloud 01's Ray-marching quality from 0.832301 to the default value of 0.5 to help compensate for that.

Since you're using the Path Tracer to render, you might try to increase the Max paths per sample value.  This can help reduce render times because the "smoother" sampled result means the anti-aliasing doesn't have to work as hard to clean up noise. (but test it first).

Lastly, if you don't need the Path Tracer for other reasons in your project, you could try rendering via the Standard renderer.  The standard render time was 03:52 verses the path tracer 23:50 with an anti-aliasing value of 8 for both renders.

31338_PathTracer_Render_23m50s.jpg
Path tracer render

31338_Standard_Render_03m52s.jpg
Standard render



#27
Terragen Support / Re: Cloud rendering switches f...
Last post by midnight.mangler - October 18, 2025, 06:04:18 AM
Here is an actual render. Top of image is flawless, then starts to get very noisy.

test.png
#28
Terragen Support / Re: Cloud rendering switches f...
Last post by midnight.mangler - October 18, 2025, 04:11:01 AM
testfile.tgd

Thanks! :-)
#29
Terragen Support / Re: Cloud rendering switches f...
Last post by Kevin Kipper - October 16, 2025, 11:25:08 AM
Can you send us the project file so we can take a look at it?  
#30
Terragen Support / Cloud rendering switches from ...
Last post by midnight.mangler - October 16, 2025, 02:10:39 AM
Hello All

I have a curious issue. When I render clouds, the top of the render is perfect, but the bottom is very noisy. This can start from the upper middle part of the image or with the same clouds, but different perspective or including obj) it can be at the very bottom of the image. I can't figure out why it changes (or why its there at all). I wish I could attach an image as an example but for an unknown reason the upload reaches half way and stalls. I tried several times. So I'm hoping someone has hit this issue before and understands what I might be talking about.

Running build 4.8.23 on an Apple Silicon Mac. Did not yet have a chance to see if the same issue occurs on Windows but will try tonight.

Btw its odd you can't upload a tif without converting to another format as that is the default save to disk image format for Terragen.

Love my Terragen but baffled by this issue. Appreciate any help.