Newbies animation

[Aerometrex]

Hi All,

First of all, I'd like to congratulate all of you for the fantastic work you've done using Terragen.
I've started to use Terragen 2 a few weeks ago. My goal is to generate 3D fly-through with real aerial data and digital elevation model and I've been very impressed by the capabilities of this software.

I've started a Youtube channel with the first animations I've made: http://www.youtube.com/user/Aerometrex/videos
I'd like to have your feedback on that.

Keep the good work!

[Themodman101]

This is very good indeed, the Mine one is inturesting because you managed to Get good preservation of the Road of highlevel displacements. Looks very much like a road. thats an accuracy thing.

have you solved the shadow flicker problems you were getting?

[Aerometrex]

I've almost managed to eliminate flickering by ticking off the options "Microvertex jittering" and "Detail jittering" and seting up "detail blending" to 1 under the tab "Extra" in Renderers.
There is still some issues with shadows appearing/disappearing  when the sun is very low as you can see at the end of this 3D animation http://youtu.be/CvLKXK2Q1do

Not sure what to do about it at this stage.

[Henry Blewer]

Impressive fly-throughs. I like the Mc Arthur Basin one very much.

[TheBadger]

these are very interesting to me. How are they done using terragen?!

[Aerometrex]

As a summary, I used 10cm aerial imagery as a colour shader and digital elevation model over the same area as a heightfield.
For the rivers I've generated a mask based on my aerial imagery and used the lake as a water object.
Nothing fancy here. The result looks good due to the fact that I'm using real data.

Hope it help.

[inkydigit]

these all look very impressive...