Does anyone have any tutorials for the Carrara 2 Terrain Modeler? I did some images with the free Terragen program and I'd like to be able to do the same types of things inside Carrara.

If anyone knows how, I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Brian Wheatley

I dropped a terrain object into my scene and used the zero edges filter to make it look sort of like an island. I used the Sandstone shader so it doesn't look like a big gray blob.

I've also put down an infinite plane that I hope to make look like an ocean. I used the Seawater shader and changed the color to a blue color. Now when you look at the picture you can still see the flat edges of the terrain.

Somewhere it was mentioned that you can "jump into" a different modeler, so I'm hoping that once the terrain is generated it can be opened with the vertex modeler for tweaking. If you can do that I haven't figured out how. :(

Brian

Well the terrain modeller can be powerful but to get the results you get from terragen, Bryce, or Vue requires much more work. You see the others mentioned, unlike Carrara, are dedicated landscape based 3D apps. Carrara is a model based 3D app so making terrains and such are not as simple. I am not the best person to ask about modeling in the Terrain modeler, but I have had some pretty good results tinkering with it. You can get a decent sky and cloud layers, you can get a decent Ocean by not only using the Color value of the shader, but also using the Bump. Also the C2 terrain features are mostly new, so the Carrara 1 books are not good for these... I am sure that someone on here can direct you to a good tutorial or something. Regards, Paul

Where's TOXE? He's done some really impressive modeling with terrains. -Kix