Terragen is a powerful solution and photorealistic 3D environment design and rendering software, providing powerful and flexible tools for professional artists to bring to life the worlds and realistic natural environments of their imagination. Terragen is used widely in a broad spectrum of industries including VFX studios and game development. Terragen 3 was developed with the direct feedback from VFX vendors and studios using Terragen in major film and TV projects. Using Terragen the user have the full control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micro-polygon displacements, clouds and object distributions. You can reorganise the planetary shading pipeline to suit your goals. Terragen 3 Professional includes many new features and performance enhancements to meet the needs of deadline-driven projects. A Linux render node will also be available with Terragen 3 Professional, making integration with existing Linux render farms possible for the first time.
Planetside decided to divide the Terragen 3 product into several versions which are distinguish by features included inside them; Terragen 3 Creative, Terragen 3 Creative + Animation, Terragen 3 Professional, Terragen 3 Professional + Animation and Terragen 3 free. The difference between all those versions you can find at Planetside homepage or following this link.
Feature Highlights
- Comprehensive layer and render element output
- Enhanced 3D preview
- New ultra-fast, high detail Global Illumination mode
- Significantly improved population control including per-instance editing and colour variation
- Support for FBX and other industry-standard data interchange formats
- Significant performance enhancements for localized cloud rendering
- Object mesh deformation
- Content library for organizing and quickly accessing scene files, objects, and textures
- Enhanced DEM format and geo-referencing support
- New spherical camera
- Depth of Field blur
- Linux render node
Terragen 3 builds on the cutting-edge technology first released in Terragen 2, which has been used for visual effects in more than 20 feature films as well as numerous major TV productions, and is relied upon by many of the most respected visual effects companies. Terragen’s powerful displacement and atmospherics engines have garnered a reputation for accurate, photo realistic environments featuring detailed terrains, physically-based volumetric skies, and massive populations of instanced geometry. Planetside Software has continued to improve these core strengths for Terragen 3, producing new creative options and render capabilities, improved performance, and enhanced workflows. The full Terragen 3 product line will be released in August, 2013. Terragen 2 users will be able to upgrade to Terragen 3 Professional for a special price of $149. This upgrade comes with a single Workstation license and no additional rendering licenses. Those who purchased Terragen 2 following the announcement of Terragen 3 on June 12th will be automatically upgraded to Terragen 3 upon release.
More information at: Planetside