Post Description

Terragen program is the editor of the landscape. It strongly stands out against a background set of similar tools (such as Bryce, Vue xStrream and so on) for size distribution. Terragen 2 Technology Preview weighs no more than 10 megabytes, so if the weight analogues usually starts with 400. But the work performed in this program, does not concede to them by quality, and in many ways even surpassed.

Key features:

* Powerful vizualizator with the possibility of miscalculation of billions of polygons;
* Work with procedural maps with high detail;
* System of the atmosphere and the possibility of the use of multi-layer clouds;
* 3D-preview in real time;
* Support of plants in popular formats, including those made with the help of Xfrog.

Terragen 2 makes this possible with the following features and benefits:
Hybrid micropolygon renderer optimised for large displacements and very large landscapes.
Render entire planets, sweeping vistas, tiny rock gardens, or anything in between.
Export high resolution objects from displaced surfaces.
Import 3D objects for rendering.
Render millions of plants and other objects using instancing. Billions of virtual polygons are handled 
with ease.
Add multiple heightfields, textures and displacement maps to your scene.
Georeferencing options; automatic georeferencing for properly formatted GeoTIFF files.
Procedural terrains that can span an entire planet.
Apply almost "infinite" fractal detail to terrain and other objects.
Overhanging terrain using procedural displacements, image-based displacements, or imported geometry.
3D painting of colours and masks that can control almost anything in the scene.
Photorealistic atmosphere and sunlight.
Volumetric clouds or fast "2.5D" clouds.
Global illumination, multiple scattering in volumetrics, full light interaction between volumetrics 
and surfaces.
Production quality anti-aliasing and motion blur that renders quickly and efficiently.
High dynamic range output; generate photorealistic environment maps and IBL sources.
Node graph editor for ultimate control over shaders and textures.
Flexible planetary shading pipeline.
Animation of almost any parameter with the optional Animation module.

Size : 6.8 MB