![]() ![]() There are also several new shaders and “numerous enhancements to existing ones”.įinally, the old Animation module, previously a separate purchase, has now been incorporated into the core software, making it possible to animate “nearly any setting”, and to use motion blur in still images. The effects operate in HDR, and respond to light intensity and colour, and other scene properties. In addition, there are a range of new “high-quality, context-aware lens effects” like bloom and starbursts. Terragen 4 can also now simulate the absorption of light by ozone in the atmosphere, improving realism in scenes where the sun is near the horizon, or the earth is seen from space.Ĭontext-aware lens effects animation functionality now included as standard The system produces highly realistic results, and comes with presets for common cloud types. Terragen can now simulate light scattering “hundreds of times”, along with inter-cloud and cloud-surface interactions. ![]() Other new features include a new system for simulating internal scattering within clouds. New options for simulating ozone and light scattering in clouds You can see the performance boosts for individual test scenes on the Terragen 4 website. The update overhauls Terragen 4’s rendering capabilities, adding a new interactive Ray-Traced Preview (RTP), which provides “almost instant” feedback on objects, shaders, atmosphere and lighting.įinal-quality rendering has also been speeded up, with “scenes which feature objects on average more than twice as fast as Terragen 3”. New interactive render preview faster final-quality rendering You can read our original story here, which covers all of the sneak peeks Planetside posted in the run-up to the release, and includes more demo videos.īut if you’re coming to Terragen 4 for the first time, the story below is a more concise guide to its features. The release actually shipped a couple of weeks ago, but at the time, the product website hadn’t been fully updated, so there was no convenient online summary. Planetside Software has posted a full breakdown of the new functionality available in Terragen 4, the latest version of its landscape-generation software. ![]()
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