Mt. St. Helens Teaser by JavaJones

Terragen • Realism • posted on Mar 10, 2005

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Description

A "quickie" rendering of an 8193x8193 terrain of Mt. St. Helens, derived from 3 meter DEM data available from the USGS. I will be making this terrain and other sizes available later today. I will announce their availability in the Terragen forums. I hope you will enjoy. :) Edit: The terrain for this image is now available. http://ashundar.com/forums.php?m=posts&p=12814 Note that the versions I am providing have seams stitched and are in UTM projection and are thus of higher quality than any so far made available. If you have been using Manel's terrain or those from Terranuts, I recommend you download these new ones as they are at least slightly better. I look forward to seeing your creations from these terrains. Enjoy!

Comments (24)

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Mondwin

6:51AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Very splendid ,realistic image!bravo!vote!:DDD

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inkydigit

6:53AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

oh boy!!!this is one reason why I need a new machine with loads of ram and superfast dual processors!!marvelous image!with astonishing detail!!:)

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linkdink

6:54AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

obviously Terragen is one hell of a program.... this is really great.

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Rich2

6:56AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Nice surface distribution for realism. O yes, I enjoy! 8193 terrain - you must have a beta version of a future release...

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JavaJones

7:00AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Actually I am using the same 0.9.19 version that everyone else has. It's just a little known fact that it can now (as of 0.9.x) render terrains above 4097 and render non-square terrains. Non-square terrains are a bit problematic in terms of positioning the camera on the terrain view, but otherwise work well.

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Haroon

7:10AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Great render. Love the terrain's details due to excellent lighting. great sky and surface, too.

eponce

7:11AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

excellent and very realistic! congrats eze :D

kokob

7:31AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Great surfacing, the lighting suits it well. I'm interested in the 8193x8193 information - I've put huge DEMs together, but 3DEM only seemed to be able to put them together at 4097x4097...

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Markal

9:38AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Wow Java...you really do know how to use Terragen :)...super work and great information as always.

Simplicity

9:43AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Excellent surface work, Lovely terrain and lighting.

christianfly

10:21AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Fantastic render! Humm, what is the trick to merge the terrains ?

Zerelli

10:51AM | Thu, 10 March 2005

W-o-w....that is an awesome terrain!

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OERNIE

12:52PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

top image and terrain !!!!!!

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stbc

1:01PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Excellent detail!!!!

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Buzzzzz

1:08PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Looks like this terrain has very nice detail. At least more so than other Helen terrain I've tried.

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JavaJones

1:57PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Most terrain programs that can export to Terragen conformed to the internal limits of ^2+1 (power of 2 + 1) terrain sizes, and the max of 4097. The .ter format has always been capable of more, but TG did have problems rendering non-square terrains previously. I'm not sure if it would load an 8193 before either, since I never tested it. Unfortunately the capability to render larger and non-square terrains was not publicized, and is essentially not fully and officially supported, so most of the terrain application programmers did not update their applications when 0.9.19 came out. When I discovered the new rendering possibilities a few months ago I tried to contact as many of the developers as I could to get them to include support for larger and non-square terrains. A few developers have responded by adding such support. Tim O'Donoghue was the one who ended up contacting the makers of Global Mapper and support for terrains up to 16,387x16,387 was added in a minor version. I did contact the 3DEM developer but he said he didn't yet have time to implement it. Global Mapper is unfortunately not free, but it's a much more powerful program than 3DEM, so if you intend to work heavily with DEM's, I highly recommend registering it. Of course in this case you don't have to. ;)

bebert

2:37PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

SPLENDID !!!!!

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superza

4:35PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Details on snowy surface is very impressive! Amazing photorealism!! Should be interesting know what was the Original render size and how many hours to did it. Excellent and full of useful information render!

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Saurav

10:01PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Excellent terrain and details. Working on this terrain at the moment.

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JavaJones

10:32PM | Thu, 10 March 2005

Original render is as you see it, 1600x1200. These super high resolution terrains provide a natural antialiasing effect, so downsampling is less necessary. EBD was on and full atmosphere and cloud detail. Render time 2hrs 30mins on an Athlon 64 3400+ @ 2.4Ghz with 1GB of RAM.

dragonfly2000

10:12AM | Fri, 11 March 2005

Beautiful landscape work.

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prutzworks

1:08PM | Fri, 11 March 2005

xlt work

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Micter

1:28AM | Sat, 12 March 2005

Excellent work with this large terrain ! And what you said about these terrains is very interesting ! Thank you for sharing it !

HeikoH

4:24PM | Sat, 12 March 2005

Very nice clear render! Maybe the trasition between grass and snow is not as realistic as the rest of this pic. Some more layers between can help. :-) Still an excellent work!!