Terragen 2 Technology Preview appearance free software for creating 3D landscape CG appeared

The Technology Preview version of the free software "Terragen 2" which can create extremely high image quality and realistic 3D landscape CG can be downloaded. Although there are various restrictions, it is possible to try it for the time being.

So, I actually tried using it.
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Terragen 2 Technology Preview

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In general, you can create CG like this.

Terragen 2 Images

The tutorial is on the following page.

MeltingIce 07 PATHS: Tutorials for your Design World

Current limits are that you can not generate images of 800 x 600 or more, Render Detail can only be specified up to 1.0, anti-alias can only be up to 3, the number of Rendered Populations is up to 3. The commercial version without these restrictions is $ 199, and the animation feature is attached to $ 299.

Details such as price

Launch the downloaded installer. Click "Next"

Check "I Agree" and click "Next"

Click "Next"

Click "Next"

wait

Click "Close" to finish

Click "OK" when it starts up

The initial screen looks something like this

"Auto generate" can automatically create terrain

Easy to add water by clicking "Water" and adding "Lake"

It will be like this, the surface of the water is made

You can also specify the state of the atmosphere and the light of the sun

Preview and confirm with "Quick Render", if it is OK, click "Full Render" to render it

Rendering ......

That's why I tried to create a sunset view

When this renders Detail at around 0.2

When rendering after raising Detail to the maximum

There seems to be a big difference ... ... It is said that it will be completed during 2007. At that time, tutorials and so on will be more substantial. Expect great.