#Terragen 4 overhead view movie#

The basic idea is to build a surface map in the Landscape dialog of Terragen. My experience with the surfaces, to get snow or vegetation was pretty 'fumbly' so I did kind of gloss over it. Hmm, okay I just installed the new version of Terragen, and was surprised (okay, disappointed) to see that in order to render from a large terrain file, like the stitched together DEM files for a whole mountain range, you need to register Terragen, which costs $99.00.

#Terragen 4 overhead view movie#

(The uploaded movie is not so high resolution, but of adequate quality).įinally, I imported the movies into Adobe Premiere, added some music and titles, and that is the end. Now the Bink program is used to convert those bitmaps into a movie file (.AVI). I rendered images for television quality (720x480 pixels), and making this 5 minute movie probably consumed 2 weeks of my computer's time! Terragen spits out a series of numbered bitmaps (.BMP files). The result is a batch file that Terragen consumes during the render step. Next, the Terranim program was used to construct virtual flights. I wasn't patient enough to construct a good ground cover, so some of the greenery looks a little bright, and other areas are a barren brown.

I was very impressed by the snow cover, sky, cloud and haze abilities. Frankly, I didn't spend much time on this. Now this large and high resolution region can be manipulated in Terragen to get a look that suits the season, time of day, and local vegetation. I loaded all those files at once into the handy (free) program 3dem, which has a unique capability to output the combined set as a Terragen terrain file.