#Terragen realtime for games software#
#Terragen realtime for games free#

#Terragen realtime for games software#

The software can also generate accompanying weight maps from the terrain – options include slope angle, altitude and by flowline – which can be used as masks in other software. Terrains can be visualised directly inside TerreSculptor, as shown in the video above, by setting terrain colours and assigning skydome environments via a simple real-time workflow.Īlternatively, heightmaps can be exported to other DCC tools or game engines – which can be done at resolutions up 65,536 × 65,536 if you have enough memory – in a wide range of file formats. Visualise terrains directly or export them to other DCC tools or game engines

The latter include four erosion types – hydraulic, rain, slope and thermal – and the option to set the water level for the terrain. Once inside TerreSculptor, terrains can be modified via a range of “Photoshop-like” filters, including both general operations like flip, rotate, blur and invert, and landscape-specific processes. It is also possible to import height maps generated in other software at up to 64-bit resolution, or to import real-world elevation data in a range of common formats, including DEM, GeoTIFF and HGT. There are also presets for a range of common landscape types, including mountain ranges, lakes and rivers. Users can generate terrains based on a range of procedural noise types, including Perlin noise, adjusting parameters via sliders or numeric inputs, with the results displayed via a real-time 3D preview.

#Terragen realtime for games free#

The release makes the software, including features previously only available in the commercial edition, completely free for personal, commercial, and academic projects.Ī free tool for generating procedural terrains or editing real-world elevation dataįirst released publicly in 2012, TerreSculptor enables users to generate procedural terrains or edit existing heightmap data, then export the results to DCC tools or game engines in a range of common file formats. Honestly I'm less interested in sweeping distant vistas and more interested in more intimate, local scenery.Demenzun Media – aka developer David Green – has released TerreSculptor 2.0, a new ‘open use’ version of its intriguing terrain generation and editing software. It seems to mostly be pretty stark landscapes, though. But it does seem like Terragen is on sale. And there's not a lot of recent reviews out there. I dunno if I'm trained or it's more dA -artist-friendly or just plain better. The problem is everytime I click on a pretty CG landscape on dA it's almost always Vue. But meanwhile I'm trying to find out more about how Terragen compares. If they bring it up soon and have a Big Makeup Sale that'd do a lot to offset the squeamishness. Looks nice, but not sure how it compares to the other two. There's World Creator (similar pricing to the other two) as well. I would think seriously about Terragen were it not for it's node system - I have a mental block against nodes I think ever since fighting with Poser's material room ). Do you have one? Do you know about them? Can you tell me if I should wait and hope Vue returns (maybe with an apology discount hmmm) or if I should send my money elsewhere?Įxactly the same here! LOL First I thought maybe it was an omen ) The longer the sites are down tho, the more it makes one 'squeamish' about buying it, I must say. Somebody out there mentioned something called Terragen and I think there's a few other Pretty Landscape Makers out there. So I was all set to buy myself Vue as a Christmas present and the site went down.