Any ideas?

[rcallicotte]

Any ideas why this looks so blurry or hazy? 

http://www.lvshost.com/users/student/Terragen/calico_Week_2/Week_2a.jpg

The TGD - http://www.lvshost.com/users/student/Terragen/calico_Week_2/Week_2a.tgd

[DeathTwister]

Hay brother Calico,

  hummm, I see what you mean and it may just be the free version we are all playing with? as I get some of that myself, as well as a bit of grainyness as well, so I figured it was because we have the free version, not the full versions, since we cannot go above 3 for anti aliasing  but it does look pretty good, although the strata is a bit wiered.
  I take it you made this in L3DT right? then ported it over?  Maybe add a bit of roughness to the terrain? I do myself and it helps sometimes get the smoothness quality out, when I do not want it.  I love the Combo Tgd2 and L3DT.  They seem to work hand in hand as they say.
For those that do not know what L3DT is? go to: http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ and go check out Aarons software, I think you will be amazed. /winks.......

DT

[rcallicotte]

Sorry about not including the terrain file.   It's too big to upload here.  I got it from the TG2 class I'm taking.

I'm using the free version, but might consider installing the full version here.

[FrankB]

Hi,

you have multiple "issues" at once that cause this blurriness. To name a few:
1 - very strange setting in the atmosphere. Try to use the default atmo in comparison to spot all the differences
2 - increased GI to 1.5 on surfaces. This is particularly problematic with the sea, reflecting a whole lot of sky blue onto the terrain
3 - very "soft" colors for the terrain, and quite uniform and dark at the same time.
4 - maybe also the sun is almost vertical, casting very little shadows, hnce the terrain features don't appear very much differentiated.

If you change these you'll see a big difference, I bet :-)

Regards,
Frank

[rcallicotte]

Thanks, Frank!  I was fooling with the atmosphere settings to eliminate the haze and created my own problem.  Now, to figure out how that works...

[DeathTwister]

Ya, now that yopu mention it, it is probably my problem as well with the Haze making it pixulated at the anti alias at 3 for me, hummm, Thanks Frank you may have answered 2 questions /smiles.