3DAD 037 : Terragen 4 – Interview with Oshyan Greene on the latest version of this landscape generator

In this session of the 3D Art Direct podcast we interview Oshyan Greene, the business manager of Planetside Software, which produces the well regarded Terragen 3, a great solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. In this session we’re going to talk about the anticipated Terragen 4

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In this session we discover:-

– Terragen’s capabilities. What can you control as you create your realistic environment? Can you create an entire planet?

– Importing real world terrain datasets. Some of the more notable projects that Terragen has been using this capability.

– A little about Matt Fairclough who is the lead developer for Terragen.

– Terragen 4 –  the new Ray Traced preview.

– Hints on some new terrain editing tools.

– Additional photo realism for cloud scenes.

– T4 will include lens flare effects. What type of lens flare effects will we see?

– About the simulation of an Ozone layer in T4.

– The fractal procedural erosion shader by BlinkFrog for T3 (in beta) and it’s free.

– Virtual Reality and Terragen “We’re excited about VR and want to see more spherical renders from the community. Send us your renders using the Spherical Camera!” (to Planetside.co.uk)

Oshyan Greene – Business Manager at Planetside