I've purchased it right after it came out. It's very easy to use and it has a lot of potential. I've got various landscape systems for Poser, like MicroCosm and Terraformers, but this beats them all. I can see a lot of addition coming to make it even more worthwhile.

It render very quick for me, no problems in that area at all, even the atmosphere is rendering pretty fast.

While the landscape items are easy to use, the atmosphere is harder to use. It has a lot of options and settings, it will take a while to figure that out. The other thing is render settings. Took me a while to figure out what looked best.

Don't expect to create the same stunning images as in the promo in minutes. As you can see in this thread, most of them aren't even close to those. I'm not saying you cannot create such images with TerraDome, on the contrary, you can, but it will take time to do so. It's not like the Millenium Enviroment or Infinite Cove, where you have a 'landscape' in a minute, it's like a very improved version of MicroCosm, to use it you need to build your own world.

I've attached my first try with TerraDome, the setup of the scene took a few minutes, figuring out the best rendering settings took longer. Rendered with Poser 8, tone mapping on. I didn't use IDL at all, used the lights provided with TerraDome. I see others have done IDL rendered images and since IDL has failed to impress me, I didn't didn't do any renders with it. I love the improved rendering speed of Poser 8 and I'm not prepared to hand it in for a little realism gain. I did the same scene with IDL, but I didn't find the results worth the lot of extra rendering time.

Back to TerraDome. Great system.

Pros:

• Reasonable selection of morphs for the zones (which make the mountains) included.
• Excellent selection of Atmospheres included.
• Easy to use.
• Excellent light sets, they do light scenes very nicely.
• Reasonable selection of materials included.
• Not a huge load on the system resources and memory.
• Renders fairly fast.
• Tutorials included (see cons also).
• A lot of potential.

Cons

• Lack of skies and light sets, only a very basic selection included, too basic imo.
• Renders only well with high render quality settings. For TerraDome itself that's not a problem, but if you fiull your scene with figures and props, the rendering times are getting long. Lowering the render quality has gives terrible results.
• Lack of water.
• Even though tutorials are included, they're too limited. I expected a tutorial how to learn to create one of those stunning scenes, but the turorial for that part was way too basic.
• Price vs Lastibility. Although some good stuff is included, overal I do find it a bit too little. For the price tag I expected more. How long will TerraDome last me before I will desire add-ons? Not too long. For the price I expected a bit more. More morphs, more terrain textures and expecially more skies/lights.
• The promo images. Yes they are a con, since they make you go wow and after your first render you go.... oh, that's it? After a while the excitement get's back, but to create images such as the promo images will be quite a challenge. There are two images I'm really wondering about. The mill scene is the first one. I somehow doubt that was done and rendered in Poser. I can be totally wrong of course. The second one is the one woth the orc on the bridge. I'm wondering how that can be achieved with the stuff that is provided with what've got now. Perhaps parts of a coming add-on where used for that one? Again, I would be wrong..... completely.

I guess that sums it up. I'm sure I will enjoy TerraDome a lot and it's a great challenge to try to duplicate the promo images, if that can be done. Inspite of the cons, it's a great and easy way to do landscapes in Poser, that I as a landscape freak cannot do without. It's pretty stunning to see this in Poser and beats all of the other landscaping systems for Poser easily. I'm looking forward to see additions for this released to make up for the current lack.

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Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk