I have been really bored at home. So I decided to waste time productively by wasting it on Terragen. Here are the results

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This is a random terrain which I then edited and then played around with the sliders.

The Terrain Map is one I created. The rest are all experiments with Haze density and Atmospheric Blue Half-height.

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I then moved on to Blender 3D. I love this software. It’s powerful, fairly light on the system and is open-source freeware. But just because it’s open-source and free doesn’t mean it’s light on features. It has features comparable to high-end 3D Modellers like 3DS Max, Maya and Cinema 4D. Anyway here’s what I came up with

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The Tumblers are a set of SpinDuplicated Vertices.

The .blend file on Rapidshare

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I’d suggest everyone give Blender a try. It’s a lot of fun.

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Also you might try out Terragen^TM Classic.

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And if you have a really powerful computer and the inclination, you might even download the Limited Freeware edition of Terragen^TM 2

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Well, see you later.

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Die letzte Reise durch Wortmanum liegt ja schon länger zurück. So war es wieder einmal an der Zeit, einen kleinen Trip durch die wortmanischen Gefilde anzutreten.

Bilder/Bearbeitung: T.R. aka Wortman
Software: Terragen

Da hat mich Horus durch seinen Beitrag dran erinnert, dass ich mal wieder durch mein Land reisen sollte.

Die letzte Reise war ja schon einige Zeit her…

Bilder/Bearbeitung: T.R. aka Wortman
Software: Terragen

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This debate has raged for many many years and will continue to rage for many more.  In certain internet digital art communities this debate is again resurfacing.  Some people put forth that using found digital materials like, for example, 3D models available through such sites as Daz3d.com and ContentParadise.com aren’t art when rendered through tools like Poser.  Well, I put for this response to these people.

What exactly is art?

That is an age old question. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about ‘old’ mediums such as paint, canvas, pencil, clay, or metal or if you are discussing ‘new’ mediuma such as Poser, Daz, Bryce, Photoshop, Z-Brush or even Maya. The question is still valid and still remains unanswered. Basically, the answer mostly lies in the eye of the beholder. Thus, whether or not something is art is all based on opinion. Some people never believed that Marcel Duchamp’s urninals were art. Some people never believed that Jackson Pollack’s paint splatters were art. Some people never believed that Robert Rauschenberg’s mixed medium works (including tires and other found objects) were art. Some people still don’t.  But, does that make them not art?  No. Clearly, these men have been recognized as artists in art history.  Thus, what they have created is art.

The fact is, controversy has always surrounded new forms of art and new art mediums. There have been many artists who have taken existing pre-made structures and turned them into ‘art’.  In digital media, this is no different than inserting an existing Poser figure and using it in any given digital artwork.  Simply using Poser and a Poser figure does not necessarily make the work less profound as art.  

Creating things from scratch

For those who believe that you must create everything from scratch in 3D, I put forth this argument. Most artists who paint today do not make their own paints, construct their brushes and create their canvas (down to spinning the yarn and looming it into a fabric). If it were required by artists to create everything simply to ‘create art’, not much art would be created.  Most people would spend their time creating the tools they need to create the art.  Should you be required to create the graphite and shape the wood just to turn it into a pencil? No.  Sure, I admire those who want to create everything from scratch and I applaud them. But, that doesn’t mean every artist needs to work in that way.

If you want to take this argument further, then you should be required to write your own Photoshop application each time you want to modify an image.  Clearly, this is silly and no one would think this.  So, why is it that people believe that you must create every object you place in a 3D realized world and rendered image?  You don’t create every object you put in your home, why should you have to create every object you put in 3D world you create?  Again, this argument is completely silly.

Creating 3D objects

Yes, creating 3D objects using a modeling program is an art in itself.  It takes a lot of patience and consumes time creating these objects.  Again, I applaud these content producers. And I agree that it does make those objects art, but only in the sense of industrial design (very much like the camera or a chair).  The object is nothing, however, without a showplace.  Like the camera, if an object isn’t used in some way and no one ever sees it, then it’s not time well spent creating the object.  Thus, without a showplace, the object is not an artwork.  It is art in the sense of industrial design, functional art.  In this case, though, 3D objects only have functions when used in the context of creating scenes or together with other objects.  So, creating a 3D version of  a Ferrari F40 is great, but as an object on its own it’s really not a piece of artwork (other than industrial design).  However, this F40 could be used within a larger scene combined with other objects to create an artwork.  Then, the object becomes much more than its industrial design heritage.

That’s not to say I don’t respect and admire those who create 3D objects.  I do.  I applaud them and encourage them to create more.  Without such objects, artists won’t have the necessary things to create the imaginative scenes they can envision.

Art is what you make of it

Not to be overly redundant… ok, let’s…Art is what you personally make of it. Good art conveys emotion, makes a statement and usually motivates the viewer into a reaction (good or bad). However, whether a specific work is good or bad art is for each person to decide.  A 3D object, its texture and bump maps and all of its underlying components don’t and can’t both evoke a reaction and make a statement alone.  Only when these objects are placed within an imaginitive scene do these objects take on a new life and become much more than the sum of their parts.

Probably the single deciding factor for whether a specific piece of art is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is whether or not the work was intentional (i.e., makes a statement about something). Thus, if someone intentionally takes a listless figure and does nothing to it and plops it in the middle of a scene seemingly uncreatively with a few simple lights, the deciding factor is if the artist did this scene intentionally to make a point about some subject matter. Intent is the single biggest factor in any artwork. As an artist, you have to understand this single aspect. Everything you put into a scene must be intentionally placed there and and placed there for a reason. If the scene does not seem intentionally constructed, then the artwork has failed as artwork. An artist might copy those who create ‘amateur’ works in a statement about amateur artwork, but which then becomes artwork in itself. It’s the statement itself that makes it art.

The above photo is not technically a photo at all. That might be surprising or it might not be, depending on how perceptive your eyes are.

The image was made with a freeware program called Terragen, and with a certain amount of skill you can easily be fabricating photo-realistic images in no time. The image above and the one below were made after fooling around with the program for about thirty minutes. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to spend a lot more time with it and come up with some really great scenery that will, if anything, spice up this blog a little bit.

I’m also interested to see if I can use the program to generate imagery that supplements any sci-fi stories I write in the future. It’ll be worth the effort and a fun diversion regardless.

You can see that these two images are the same terrain with the same camera location, just a slightly different angle (more a mistake than anything). I played with the atmosphere effects for the one above (below is the original).

“Für Anfänger im ‘3D-Sektor’, die Landschaften erstellen möchten, empfehle ich das Render-Programm Terragen, welches über eine durchaus beachtliche Anzahl von Einstellungsmöglichkeiten verfügt.” Als Gratis-Demo steht es auf der Website der Entwickler zum Download bereit.

Some software just blows you over in wonderment, for me, this is one of those. Despite being a few years old, and therefore looking a little bit dated, the software does some wonderful, amazing things.  Terragen is, as the name suggests, a terrain generator. One that can create some really superb results.

Even a layman like me can create some nice looking landscapes.

I’m nowhere near being an expert; I just fiddle around with settings, move sliders around, and keep fiddling until I’m happy with what comes out. I’m incredibly lazy, and therefore have not yet read the help files, but even I’ve been able to create some fairly nice looking landscapes just by fiddling and learning. Some of the example images on the Terragen website look photo-realistic; I don’t think I would be able to tell that they were computer generated had I not known beforehand.

You can save the terrains you make to be editable again later, in addition to being able to save the generated preview as a bitmap image file which can be viewed without need of the Terragen software.

I usually like to give a quick overview of software to get you started, but I really don’t feel able or worth to with this. I started knowing nothing about it, and just learnt through fiddling and twiddling. I can only suggest that you do the same. Or, if you’re more motivated than me, have a thumb through the user guide. They’re also currently working on version 2 of the software, which gives even more realistic generation, including  However, it’s still in a very early testing stages, currently depending primarily on mathematics, therefore making it rather confusing!

I highly suggest giving this application a go; it’s great fun and quite satisfying to see it work away to create a nice landscape after you’ve grappled with the menus, sliders and options. You can download it from www.planetside.co.uk/terragen.

This was my first attempt to generate a 3d landscape in Terragen, or ever actually. I’m going to be trying to model Trecatti Landfill a little better than this, but its a start. I’ve decided to show it in video format:

I am slightly concerned about how automatic Terragen is. Although its obvously helpful, it also extremely limiting. It may be wise to model more predominant landmarks (ie the landfill) in Maya, which would give me the freedom I need to get it right. Terragen (for me) is probably only good to use for the larger (less detailed) majority of the landscape. That said, perhaps I just need more practice. This was created in Terragen 0.9, I also have version 2 which is meant to be better. The only problem is that version 2 seems to lack user freindliness as its mostly done through a graph I think! Never the less, I’ll probably have a go at that as well.

With the obvious limitations of a fixed view perspective (still photography/ video) and the impossibility of me gaining areal shots, I have become interested in the possibility of creating 3d environments to place live action (or otherwise) footage into. With regards to my current project, this could work very well with the high mountains of rubbish and earth. The project may come to rely on landscape footage, so it could be in my interest to look into this a little.

I would first like to talk about Terragen, a program I have noticed come up while looking at this kind of work. Terragen is a software used specifically to design 3D landscapes. Many films have used it including Perl Harber, so it definately holds its worth. The best thing is, ITS FREE ! The free version allows up to 800 x 600 size movies/ images to be exported. At present I am only able to produce DV PAL films (720 x 576), so this shouldn’t be a problem.

Having not tried it myself yet, I am unable to share an experience of it. However I am looking at some of the tutorials available for it, I can say that its a hell of a lot simpler to use compared with Maya & 3ds Max (the other 3d packages I’m learning). Many people I have looked at, seem to like creating landscapes in Terragen and adding it with other elements in other more complicated 3d packages. This seems to be because the results are far easier to achieve using Terragen.

Terragen is advertised as producing photorealistic landscapes. While it will never replace the real thing, you can see from the example below it is a good substitute considering the costs involved with real footage of the same thing.

Example of a landscape made by Terragen

My discovery of Terragen stemmed from this video, which I found quite impressive. I can imagaine something like this being used for discussion on climate change.

In terms of acheivability, I think the above video tells all. This animation was created by one person and was the first they had made. Although pretty plain in the way that its just a camera panning through a landscape, I am interested in their idea of giving the left and right eye fields together. In 3d glasses films, the two images would be projected together in different colours for each eye to register them independantly. However, seeing this has made me consider split fields as a creative option.

This video shows how landscape videos from Terragen can be combined with more complex 3d animations in Maya.

I found a good tutorial introducing the idea of combining Terragen and Maya here.

Another method adopted by some people is adding 3d elements to a still photograph. This gives the impression of a 3d landscape.

I am interested in creating waste that flys accross a landscape. For this I could use a physics system such as one above used for bricks.

This is something I put together using Terragen and Photoshop.

Hierbei wurde der Hintergrund mit Terragen gerendert, die Mauern entstanden aus Texturen und das Vamp-Girl wurde nach Vorlage gezeichnet… Personen zeichnen war noch nie meine Stärke ^^

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Der alte gute Wortman hat mal in seinem Blog die Landschaften in terragen gemacht.  Nun möchte ich hier auch einige meiner Werke zeigen. Natürlich überarbeitet mit der entsprechenden Software. Auf meinem alten iMac … (Fortsetzung folgt)

Was ist Terragen?

Terragen ist der Landschaftsgenerator für photorealistische Grafiken und Animationen. Mit dieser Freeware kann man fotorealistische Landschaften rendern oder auch ohne große Vorkenntnisse die ersten einfachen Bilder und Movies erstellen.

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