Haven't used terragen for ages, so downloaded the new version. The background is terragen, the ships are wings, but rendered in Bryce. So Guess I'm gonna have to start posting in the mixed medium gallery.

Cool stuff. T does what it does very well. And the MM gallery??? LOL.. if everyone that mixed progs with Bryce posted there, there would be only 10 pics in the Bryce gallery anymore.

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Nice, real feeling of motion,.........as a matter of fact I'm going to go throw-up,.............I'm getting motion sickness,..........urrrpp.

Nice pic. for some reason though your models remind me of boomerangs and i have the feeling if you threw them they won't come back ;)

It looks like it jumps off the screen! I scroll up and right when the whole image is showing it jumps at me! Excellent sense of motion! How did you do the shadow on the mountain-side? Way cool!

I haven't the latest version of Terragen, but one of the things that's really nice about it is the ease with which you can manipulate the sun - height in sky, direction, colour, intensity, disc size, shadows etc. You just click on an icon of the sun to bring up all the controls, ditto for atmosphere, water, clouds, surface maps. It's a really logical, easy interface.

Great Image, love the results TG turns out.

oops - what wasn't clear from my screenshot is that both those red lines are separate controls - one for sun-height above horizon, the other for the direction of the sun - you can drag the line around and watch how the shadows change instantly in the grey preview window.

The shadow on the mountain was post work. Since I had a mask of the ship in a layer anyway, I moved it left and down, shrunk it a bit and then used PS's burn to create the shadow, then blurred it a little. Boomerang - Yeah, I was kind playing with extruding and soften and got a bit carried away :-)

well downloaded terragen too and did a test render in blender

ysvry - why did you do the render in Blender (hey, I'm a poet) instead of in Terragen? Just wondering.......

..and the terrain-following radar is saying, "PULL UP! PULL UP!" Nice motion blur!

That's what I'm wondering, too. If all you are going to use Terragen for is the heightmaps I would recommend getting World Machine instead. It can generate much better ones with a greater level of control. I think Terragen renders just fine, especially since its images have the same level of detail no matter how close or far the camera is to the surface, unlike image-based textures.