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50 Years Later

Terragen Realism posted on Oct 18, 2005
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50 years after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which flattened trees up to 8 miles from the blast, the mountain's greenery has returned. This is the first Terragen 2 alpha image to be shown featuring 3D objects. All objects have been loaded and rendered directly in the current "TGD" alpha. There are 310,00 trees, 580,000 bushes, and 85,000 "grass clumps", totalling over 13.5 billion polygons before culling. As you can see TGD can do objects, and it can do them well. :D The 3D objects used are from an XFrog freebies archive here: http://web.inf.tu-dresden.de/ST2/cg/downloads/publicplants/ Also note the moon is a full 3D object - I could render a scene from the moon looking back at this planet, for example. The moon uses a photographic texture of our own moon mixed with some procedurals. The features of the moon have actual height. The terrain is a 2049 DEM of Mt. St. Helens. I didn't use a higher resolution version because it didn't make much difference at this distance from the crater, and with vegetation covering most of the surface. Post processing was done to make it look a bit more like a photo, and included a bit of levels and other color adjustment, a slight glow effect, minor selective sharpening, and a vignette effect (commonly seen in traditional photography). The unedited version is available upon request, but is not significantly different. I hope you all enjoy this small look at the future. More is coming soon. :)

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doneydonydone

12:00PM | Fri, 21 October 2005

excellent work!! v. realsitic!

GraySho

12:53PM | Sat, 22 October 2005

Most excellent. I wonder how you managed to plant all those trees. I just can guess that a procedural distribution, or perhaps an image map must have been used. The trees look awesome and are lit well, and I like how the ground is shimmering through in some areas. It seems like the limits of the final TGD version will be beyond imagination (at least for a long term terragen user).

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Coppens

10:10AM | Sun, 23 October 2005

Leaves me speechless...and in awe for what's coming!

JohnRidgway

7:39AM | Mon, 07 November 2005

Green with envy

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MoppelundWilli

4:38PM | Thu, 15 December 2005

Awesome! Superlative vegetation and haze!

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lior

4:14AM | Fri, 23 December 2005

Just a dream :)

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