Terragen™ 2 Technology Preview is the first public release of Planetside Software's new, cutting edge landscape visualisation software. The Technology Preview is now available for both Windows and Mac OS X 10.4.x. See below for details on obtaining your free and 100% working copy.
TG2 Technology Preview features an advanced hybrid micropolygon renderer with powerful multi-angle displacement capabilities. It has a versatile procedural engine that can be utilised to apply subpixel-level detail to almost any aspect of a scene. Terragen 2 is capable of rendering billions of polygons in a single scene.
Please note that the Technology Preview release is aimed mainly at
high end users. It has a powerful and flexible graphical
node/graph editor which is used for creating networks of shaders and scene elements. The Technology Preview features a number of high level shaders which create more complex scene elements, such as clouds or rocks, as well as a low level function node system which allows you to create shaders from "first principles", using functions and methods that will be familiar to shader writers. The node editor can be used to unlock the full power of the TG2 rendering engine.
We are very aware that many users may find the node based interface unfamiliar. We strongly emphasise that the Technology Preview release is aimed at high end users. We are continuing to develop the user interface to reduce the learning curve and make it easier to leverage the power of the TG2 render engine to create scenes of outstanding realism and complexity.
The Technology Preview is not beta software. Although it will exhibit some of the basic capabilities of TG2, it does not contain the full set of features that will exist in the final Terragen 2 release. Considerable development is underway that will not be reflected in the Technology Preview release. Most importantly the Technology Preview has not yet been optimised for speed and consequently rendering times will not be optimal. As development progresses we will be putting considerable effort into optimising the renderer, including making it threaded to best take advantage of multicore/multiprocessor machines.
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You can download a free version at site
http://planetside.co.uk/terragen/tg2/tech_preview.shtml
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