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Terragen 4 is a powerful solution for building, rendering, and animating realistic natural environments.
Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain data sets and use Terragen to create the most realistic visualizations possible. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. With Terragen you have complete control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micropolygon displacements, clouds and object distributions. You can reorganize the planetary shading pipeline to suit your goals. Place grass and trees wherever you want, as well as other objects in native TGO or OBJ format.
Terragen has been used for visual effects in countless feature films as well as numerous major TV productions, game development, VR environments, museum exhibits, documentaries, and more. Some of the largest and most respected visual effects companies in the industry rely on Terragen, including Digital Domain, Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, Scanline VFX, MPC, and many more. Terragen’s powerful displacement and atmospherics engines have a reputation for accurate, photo realistic environments featuring detailed terrains, physically-based volumetric skies, and massive populations of instanced geometry. We have continued to improve these core strengths for Terragen 4, producing new creative options and render capabilities, improved performance, and enhanced workflows.
Create and manipulate highly realistic terrains based on procedural or heightfield data. Replicate real-world terrains by loading existing heightfields, or go beyond the limits of heightfields by enhancing them with procedurals to create cliffs and overhangs. Seamlessly combine the benefits of both terrain types in one scene, achieving global-scale terrain of nearly infinite detail, from the smallest pebble, to the largest mountains.
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“Easy Cloud” models correspond to real-world cloud types such as Altocumulus, Cirrocumulus and others. For more control, Terragen’s node system allows you to create virtually any type of cloud, from wispy stratus to cirrus, billowing cumulus, towering thunderheads, mist and fog. Shading models simulate multiple scattering effects, resulting in cloud renderings that can be indistinguishable from photos.
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Terragen 4’s physically based atmosphere model simulates not only the common Rayleigh and Mie scattering properties, but also the effects of ozone. Terragen provides all the flexibility you’ll need to light your scenes. Realistic sunlight(s), local, and spot light sources can illuminate anything, and cast ray traced soft shadows. Global illumination enables full lighting interaction between surfaces, atmospheres and clouds.
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Built around a full planet model, both large and small-scale detail is possible in the same scene. Seamlessly and easily drop down from orbit to a realistically detailed ground level terrain.
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Import terrains, texture maps, 3D models, cameras and light sources. Export volumetric clouds (VDBs), terrains (heightmaps, geometry and texture maps), cameras, and more.
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Terragen is a renderer at heart. Micro-polygon displacements, instancing, physically based volumetrics, path tracing and PBR materials.
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This is an update to Terragen 4.8 to fix some bugs that have come to light. You can find the original 4.8 release here. Important Bug Fix: Clouds in Path Tracer There…
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Terragen Sky Early Access introduces “Sky Paint”, a new workspace in which you can add, remove and modify clouds with paint strokes. Now you can have precise control of the shapes and…
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Sky Paint Node Support Terragen has long been able to load project and clip files exported from Terragen Sky Early Access. Now it also supports nodes created by the new Sky Paint…
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Terragen 4 Professional is now available at “Indie” prices! On November 16th, 2023 we made a big change to our pricing structure. Depending on circumstances, individuals may be eligible to buy…
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With RPC, adding nodes to your Terragen project is simple. There’s just one catch: they tend to land all in the same spot, forcing you to untangle them in the interface. That…
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Recently, a Terragen Sky user asked us how to “render out all six faces of a cubemap?” This is a great question, and since the answer is not immediately clear we thought…
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It’s been a little over one year since the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) feature was introduced into all the versions of Terragen 4. RPC doesn’t exactly have an interface, making it what…
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In this series of posts, we’ll explore different techniques to create art-directable terrains in Terragen. Starting with a basic form, we’ll modify its shape, then distort it with warp shaders. To achieve…
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