Terragen Professional v4.8.23 (Win, Mac): Terragen™ offers a robust solution for constructing, rendering, and animating lifelike natural environments. Whether you're crafting entire worlds from your imagination or importing real-world terrain datasets, Terragen enables the creation of highly realistic visualizations. Take command of the weather, landscape features, bodies of water, and celestial bodies such as suns, moons, and stars. Enjoy precise control over shader networks governing terrains, textures, micro polygon displacements, clouds, and object distributions. Modify the planetary shading pipeline to align with your creative objectives. Easily position grass, trees, and other objects—whether in native TGO or OBJ format—modeled using third-party software.
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A hybrid micro polygon and ray tracing renderer designed for optimal performance with extensive displacements and vast landscapes. Its adaptable global illumination system ensures accurate lighting across all scales, from intricate close-ups to expansive planetary views. Terragen allows the rendering of entire planets, diverse landscapes, or any scene in between, featuring photorealistic atmospheres, sunlight, and the option for either volumetric or fast "2.5D" clouds.
With capabilities for multiple scattering in volumetrics and full light interaction between volumetrics and surfaces, Terragen produces high dynamic range output, facilitating the generation of photorealistic environment maps and image-based lighting sources. It boasts production-quality anti-aliasing and motion blur, rendering efficiently. Users can import 3D objects for rendering and effortlessly render millions of instances of plants and objects through instancing, handling billions of virtual polygons seamlessly.
The node graph editor provides ultimate control over shaders and textures, complemented by a flexible planetary shading pipeline. Terragen allows the addition of multiple heightfields, textures, and displacement maps to scenes, supporting procedural terrains that span entire planets. The application excels in applying almost infinite fractal detail to terrain and objects, enabling overhanging terrain through procedural displacements, image-based displacements, or imported geometry.
Terragen facilitates 3D painting of colors and masks to control various aspects of the scene. Animation capabilities extend to almost any parameter, providing dynamic visual storytelling. The software also offers georeferencing options, including automatic georeferencing for properly formatted GIS files such as GeoTIFF. Additionally, users can export high-resolution objects from displaced surfaces, enhancing the versatility of the rendering process.
