Planetside Software
In late 2016 we were contacted by LAIKA, one of the most successful stop motion-focused production companies, and makers of the critically acclaimed “Kubo and the Two Strings”, among many…
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Texture mapping is a vital part of creating realistic representations of objects in 3D. For many years the near-universal standard for representing texture map coordinates, shape, etc. was “UV Mapping”.…
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A quick introduction to animating objects in Terragen 4. This video continues the previous video on camera animation, demonstrating
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Terragen 4.4 represents a major step forward in rendering quality, speed, and functionality. Most notably, the Path Tracer is now more full-featured and has been heavily optimized, making it ready…
read moreBuild 4.4.44 (Release) Released November 18, 2019 Included in Maintenance up to March 21, 2019 Initial release of v4.4 Rendering Changed the default render settings: – “Robust adaptive sampler” is…
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In the course of our support activities, we often get user scenes that we are able to significantly optimize, improving render time and/or quality and increasing overall productivity for the…
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We have identified a rare but potentially severe performance issue for those using Terragen on a Windows system with an Nvidia Quadro graphics card. When the drivers for these cards…
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It used to be that every application had its own particular way of handling shader and material setups, even when dealing with the same basic kinds of image-based textures. This…
read moreWe’re back with another Support Diaries entry. We recently had a user in our forums asking how they should decide which programs to learn and buy to accomplish their scene…
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Update: The sale has ended, thanks for your support! Terragen is on sale! Up to $140 off through July 31st This year we’re celebrating summer with an epic sale on…
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A quick introduction to using the various types of preset content available for Terragen using the Library, including project files
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A quick introduction to moving, rotating, scaling and deleting individual 3D objects within a population.
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A quick introduction to controlling the placement of populations of 3D objects in Terragen, including simple shapes, fractal and density
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A quick tutorial on using the population tool in Terragen 4 to import multiple copies of a 3D object into
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The much-anticipated Terragen 4 benchmark is here! Big thanks to Ulco Glimmerveen for creating the original scene and allowing us to use it as the basis for this benchmark. As…
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A quick intro to adding clouds to a Terragen scene.
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Our friends over at StratusCore have just rolled out Terragen on their virtual workstation platform, and now everyone can try Terragen Professional for up to 3 hours, completely free! Your trial comes…
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A quick introduction to moving the sun light source in Terragen 4.
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An introduction to working with the ray-traced preview in Terragen 4.
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