Terragen renders*I do requests*

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For those who don't know what Terragen is, it is a scenery generator that can be downloaded from www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ . There is a free version(which I have) and a version that costs money, but has a few more options and slightly improved renders.

As I pointed out in the title, you can request a landscape(just describe it well, so I have a better chance of getting it right) an edit of a landscape(basically some changes on Paint Shop Pro to change the overall feeling of the picture) or both.

And now for some examples that I made(and how I improved since I started in the summer)


When I started out, this was how my pictures turned out.


Apparently, Terragen doesn't have as many limits as I thought.


I soon grew better after a few weeks.


I haven't reached my boundaries yet.


This is pretty hard to achieve.


But this is even harder to make. Me and my imagination...


If you think this is impossible, apparently I managed.


I edited the picture in Paint Shop Pro, and look how it came out.


A day at the beach, anyone?



If anybody wants me to make a render for them, go ahead and ask me.

[red.yoshi]

Wow, these are pretty sweet! Great work! This program looks very very interested and fun to work with!

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I found it very easy to work with. I never read the basic tutorial, and look how my first picture came out. ( Not my first ever. But I thought I did good enough that it deserved to be put in my pictures folder.

I did a series of pictures last weekend, seven of them, all using the same terrain file( but look how different you can make the same place look). I ended up calling them the World Map Series, because of the way I positioned the camera. Apparently, this planet's orbit is very messed up.

I even added an estimated population count for this imaginary world.

World Map - This is a nice environment, isn't it?
Human Population-30,000,000
Yoshi Population-10,000,000



World Map 2: The Dry Days - The atmosphere got so hot that it brought the ocean's tides extremely low.
Human Population-29,000,000
Yoshi Population-7,600,000



World Map 3: The Ressurection- After long decades of barren dryness and living on the shrunken coasts, the seas rise a bit over their normal point. The environment has changed.
Human Population-2,000,000,000
Yoshi Population-600,000,000



World Map 4: The Rising Tide-The heat levels never dropped back to normal, causing the ice caps to melt. The results were near-Apocalyptic for those living on the coastline.
Human population-1,300,000,000
Yoshi population-3,000,000



World Map 5: The Frozen Fire-The planet's irregular orbit took it much further away from its star than ever before, and the ocean level dropped again as it became glaciers and snow.
Human population-1,400,000,000
yoshi population-8,000,000



World Map 6: The Rocky Ranges- As the planet started moving closer to its star, the rotation sped up heavily, and the results were winds that blew entire cities away. Much of the vegetation, snow, and dirt was blown into space.
human population-20,500,000
yoshi population-6,700,000



World Map 7: The End of the Line-The planet got so close to its star, the atmosphere became unsuitable for most life. The only survivors lived in high-tech cities closed off from the atmosphere and created their own artificial world to live off of.
Human population- 1,200,000
Yoshi population-67,000


And it kept going on in cycles, although the overall population got more used to it afterwards, and it ended up becoming so routine that there were barely any losses after the fourth cycle. Each cycle goes on a 3 century timespan.

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Apparently, people wouldn't want to live on a planet like that unless they wanted the experience of living in a rapidly changing world. The Fourth, sixth, and seventh parts of the cycle were the most dangerous. The fourth always had sudden floods and storms. People living on the coast one sunny day suddenly found themselves standing on rooftops hoping to be rescued from the heavy storms and the rising water. The sixth had sudden fierce winds that would in the least blow you around so badly that a man watching from a window in a reinforced building saw a whole city suddenly torn from its roots. The rubble- and citizens, were strewn for miles. The seventh had become extremely hot, and the atmosphere change destroyed whatever wasn't protected from both.

[Not-Garr]

A land I'd love to see rendered is a place called Thrashia, it's a location in my little made-up world where my character was born.

A country inside a ring of mountains with lakes, smooth plains, and a forest along the southern edge. I'd ask for the capital city in the center, but I don't think Terragen can render cities.

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Well, it took hours(becuase the renders were taking forever), and I screwed up on something, so only two renders came out nice. I decided to make edits of those. I hope you like them.

The Grasslands original


The Grasslands edit


The Forest/Lake/Mountains original



And of course the edit.


Terragen wasn't working as it normally does, and I got impatient with it, so if things don't look as good as I had done before, blame it on my lack of sleeping and the slow rendering time.