However, I am quite pleased with what I’ve come up. I found that the software was a little complicated to get used to and there were moments when I had to close the programme and start again because I couldn’t figure out how to step back etc. In our lecture Paul spoke about how a postmodern theory, such as the Sublime, can reach the ridiculous, perhaps creating your own landscape falls under this category but it is fascinating trying to create your own landscape and control its environment, climate, light, etc… I also thought it might allow me to create a landscape using a map that I could input into it. Place grass and trees wherever you want, as well as other objects in native TGO or OBJ format that you have modeled in third party software.’ Have you ever seen a landscape that's too perfect to be real Well, now. You can reorganize the planetary shading pipeline to suit your goals. Download the latest version of Terragen for Windows. With Terragen you have complete control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micropolygon displacements, clouds and object distributions. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain data sets and use Terragen to create the most realistic visualizations possible. ‘Terragen™ is a powerful solution for building, rendering, and animating realistic natural environments.

After Paul’s Sublime Lecture, in which he spoke about and showed us an image he’d made on Terragen 4, I decided I would give it a go because I’m really interested in landscapes and creating my own one sounded interesting.

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