PlanetSide has released Terragen 2.2, an update to their flagship software for the visualisation of landscapes and natural environments. One of the new features in Terragen 2.2 is the new cloud control inputs which allows significantly greater cloud shape control and special effects like “clouds follow terrain”. For more information on Terragen, visit Planetside.
Planetside Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Terragen 2.2 which comprises a significant update to our flagship product. The release of Terragen 2.2 continues our policy of providing feature rich, free updates to purchasing customers of our 2.x product.
PLEASE NOTE: The Mac release is a Public Beta and may not be suitable for production use. The user interface has changed to use Cocoa and we want to test it with a large audience before making a final release. Please report any bugs or unusual behaviour you come across.
This release includes many significant new features that improve workflow, expand flexibility and power, and increase rendering speed for all users. Significant changes include:
- Optional wireframes in the 3D preview, with per-object/population controls
- New cloud control inputs (Altitude Offset, Depth Modulator, Final Density Modulator), allowing significantly greater cloud shape control and special effects like “clouds follow terrain”
- Cloud localization, allowing explicit controls for constraining cloud layers to a specific size and location, as well as click-and-drag repositioning on all axis; localized clouds are faster to render
- Raytraced atmosphere option, resulting in faster and lower noise atmosphere rendering in many cases
- Cloud shadow maps, offering an additional rendering speed boost for localized clouds
- Improved quality of soft shadows
- New option “anisotropic enviro light” in atmosphere and clouds allows more accurate light scattering simulation
- GI prepass padding (similar to ray detail region padding, but for GI samples), helps address issues with GI mismatch at crop and frame edge boundaries
- Bucket rendering controls for adjusting the size of rendering tiles, which can affect rendering speed and efficiency
- Light source falloff distance controls added
- Render viewer can show RGBA channels separately and alpha can be saved from render view
- Added Rule of Thirds composition guides to 3D Preview
