Notice how it’s the image from before? Yeah you did. Next inside Terragen, create a new terrain – from heightfield, find your file and voila:
TIFFs are one of a few types of file Terragen can read for terrain. In order to create a terrain from a pre-existing image first you need to take that image into photoshop. Eventually I realised how simple the process could be.
#TERRAGEN 4 FOREST TUTORIAL SOFTWARE#
One of the troubles I had was the newness of Terragen 4 as software – there was very little in the way of tutorials or helpful guides made specifically for this iteration of the program. My first attempts were highly unsuccessful. Some further variations made from this camera angle are below.Īfter these experiments I began trying to use a pre-existing image to create a terrain, similarly to how Joan Fontcuberta creates his work. Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty – 1970įirst experiment into atmospheres, adding clouds above and also a low cloud layer, visible just in the middle as an unsatsfyingly wispy little thing. With the discovery of the “Vortex Node”, vortices were placed, amusement and confuse-ment was had, and then this appeared: A spiral Jetty-esque apparition.
Here I have added contours, ostensibly maybe a tool for geographers and people trying to map out an area of land in a more scientific manner, but for me another tool to affect the colour/appearance and add a mathematical, artificial touch into the otherwise natural-seeming landscape. Look at it, that grey-y, rocky, way-too-shadow-y, should-have-moved-the-heading-of-the-sun-the-other-way-y, brilliance of 3D generated terrain. Not too dissimilar, at least in composition… But anyway, the point I wanted to make was that as fun as it is to play around in Mandelbulb, I have been feeling the call of Terragen much more. Below, we see a mountain, exciting with all it’s vibrant colours and spikiness, like a psychedelic Matterhorn (Matterhorn included for reference). Trying some new equations out, trying to create some different effects, the luminosity works well here, as does the sense of depth, but there’s not much “new” going on here. NovemLeave a Comment by robinleverton Art
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