First, click on the "Shaders"īutton to view the current shaders and then click on the "Library" button to open the library window.Ĭlick on the "Procedural Grass Shader" icon which looks like a field of grass. This is a pretty barren scene, so let's add some life and color to it. "Render Image" to get a quick preview of the image. Change the name from "Render 01" to "Quick Render"Īnd change the image width to 400 and the image height to 225.
Then click on "Render 01" to see the render properties window. Click on the "Renderers" button at the top of the screen, This is a pretty barren scene, but let's render it. Will remain at its current position until you click on this button. You can subsequently adjust the perspective camera, but the render camera This will set the render camera to be theĬurrent perspective camera. Looking at a scene (outlined in pink in the figure below). Once you're happy with theĬamera perspective, click the button just below and to the left of the scene preview that shows a camera Terragen-camera-mouse.md image/svg+xml Alt-Left Mouse Button then move mouse to rotate field of view Ctrl-Alt-Left Mouse Button then move mouse to translate field of view Shift-Alt-Left Mouse Button then move mouse L-R to translate field of viewĪdjust the camera perspective on the scene until you like the way it looks. Alt-Ctrl-LMB will shift the camera perspective, andĪlt-Shift-LMB will pan the camera back and forth. To rotate the camera perspective, hold down both the Alt-keyĪnd left mouse button (Alt-LMB) and move the mouse.
Scene, so click on "Tweak Noise" and change the "Noise flavour" to "Perlin ridges".Īdjust the camera view until you like the scene. Shape of the landscape by tweaking the type of fractal used to generate the landscape. Separating one hill from another: larger values mean the hills will be farther apart. For example, the "Feature scale" slider sets the length scale Will pop up with options to adjust the landscape. Click on the "Fractal terrain 01" tag and a menu on the left-hand side of the screen We're going to be using a fractal landscape in this tutorial, and Terragen makes this easy by starting with aĭefault fractal landscape. Regardless, you should see a preview of the landscape which initially resembles a moonscape.īy the way, throughout this tutorial, you may click on any of these pictures to see it in higher resolution. This could happen very quickly (if you have a graphics accelerator) or it could Using the node network all that much in this tutorial, but it can sometimes be helpful when trying to fine-tuneĪ Terragen model to adjust the parameters directly from the node network. The scene, while a diagram of the node network describing the scene appears on the bottom right. On the top right of the screen you'll see a 3D preview window of By default, you'll start with the Terrain button selected, and the Terrain window appears You'll see a row of buttons: Library, Objects, Terrain, Shaders, Water, Atmosphere, Lighting, Cameras, Renderers,Īnd Node Network.
When you first start Terragen, several windows will appear. Close the Library window when you've finished installing Library window together with preview icons. The far-right of the Library window toolbar, select "Scan Folder for Library Items", navigate to theįolder where you have extracted these presets, and press OK. Next, run Terragen, click on the Library button to open the Library window, then use the gear icon at Also extract the Walli plant package to a folder on your hard drive.
Install the Terragen presets by extracting the entire contents of the preset archive to a folder on
You can also download the Xfrog plant sampler too.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Terragen 3 to create a photorealistic landscape.īe sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page and also download the Terragen 3 presets pack and the
Which has graciously provided free versions of the program for educational and non-commercial Terragen is a program that can create photorealistic landscapes on both the Mac and PC. Creating landscapes using Terragen 3 Terragen 3 landscapes