Surfaces, and surface distribution settings in Terragen.

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Learn how to create the beautiful water in lakes and seas with Terragen.

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Generating terrain and setting camera and target viewpoints.

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This tutorial explains the use of rendered Apophysis flames as terrains for Terragen images. We do this by describing the making of my image “experiment no.4” and later discuss some variations of this method.

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What it's all about: This tutorial explains how to pause a Terragen render and how to render (large!) images in several sessions.
If you have to shut down your PC while rendering a large image, but don't want to loose the image, you can easily save the last state of it and finish it whenever you like. You also can render an image separately on more than one PC after the principle we describe here.

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Maybe you have seen pictures before, which use this trick for enhancing their scene with either beams that vanish shortly over the ground or scenes that have that strange irregular mist, which is not the “weird blue glow”-effect, but something else.

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As you might have discovered already, Terragen is capable of doing many things, which we bet its creator Matt Fairclough wouldn't have thought about at all. One can build not only landscapes, but also structures like buildings and planets and... star nebula.

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Did you ever wish to be able to just have a specific terrain feature - like grass or flowers - appear on a defined piece of land in your scenery? Like you look down into a nice valley and think, it would be fine to see some farmland over there, below this hill. Well, using common Terragen features, this is not possible. The advanced surface distribution tab only allows you to constraint the appearance of a surface layer by height and by ascention, and not by it’s coordinates.

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Ever wondered how some Terraholics produce those cool looking, thick clouds?

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What Terragen does when creating a 3-Dimensional landscape is it reads black and white data from the map it is given and translates this into highs and lows (white being high and blacks being low). The maps it reads can be generated in the program itself or created in Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you how to create a basic Terragen height map in Photoshop and then import it into Terragen for use. Many more advanced methods of brushing and blending can be used once you understand the basics of importing and exporting, and black and white data information and can be used to greatly advance your landscape creations.

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