Anyone else used Terragen?

[Nasma]

For one of our visualisation assignments, we briefly used a terrain generating tool called Terragen (r), which is freely downloadable (for non commercial use) from http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/. Unfortunately, I'm not playing any d&d at the moment, so I' not sure how helpful it would be, but it makes it extremely easy to generate lifelike images of terrain. Hopefully, someone will find a use for it in their campaign.

Here's an example that only took a few minutes to create:

 

[Ferret]

Yup I've used it before, it looks preeeety cool.

 

[EldonG]

I've been using it for quite a while, really. This link is to one of my better pieces... http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=245443&Start=1&Artist=EldonG&ByArtist=Yes

 

[Nasma]

Have either of you found it useful for gaming?

 

[EldonG]

Have either of you found it useful for gaming?

Yeah...I did a river campaign, and used it to illustrate various areas along the river. I'm dying to use objects in the render...

 

[Fargoth]

This might sound strange but I use the terragen file format but not terragen itself. I create hybrid maps using Fractal Terrains, Wilbur, World Machine and Photoshop. No examples to show. Working on latest piece now. Might show when I feel it's at an acceptable level of completion.

 

[Michael Morris]

Can this thing render structures?

 

[Nasma]

Can this thing render structures?

Unfortunately, no. But i think that this capability will be added in version two (not positive though).

 

[Ferret]

When I downloaded that was oine of the last things they wanted to add, their primary concerns were rivers etc and trees.

[edit: I've just been to the website and it looks like they are developing (and nearly finished) a new program called TGD (No idea what it stands for) that you pay for (not going to be cheap), and a terragen v1.0 with advanced featured from TGD.

Registered users of Terragen will get $(£?)80 off of TGD.