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Published: 2006-12-17 04:02:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 60677; Favourites: 182; Downloads: 3760
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A bit of a quickstart for those looking to overview the general features of Terragen 2 (technology preview.) I hope this simple tutorial helps put visuals to all the new buttons and tools!Enjoy!
EDIT: Also, here is a link to the second tutorial I've been promising. Hope it helps!
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I just downloaded terragen 2 free edition and all that went through my mind when I opened it up for the first time was NOPE but this has really helped me out! Thanks!
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Glad to hear it! I hope it gets you started.
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You're very welcome - hope you found it useful!
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You're very welcome! Hope future ones can help out as well.
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Awesome! How has it been going?
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When I did the sunlight, it looked really grainy, and overall awful...
Is there any reason for this? =/
And is there a way to fix it?
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Hey, sorry for the delay. I'm not certain what might be happening there, but I'm working on a revamp of this tutorial that will hopefully clear things up!
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Oh the irony, i have a dA account that started with my Terragen renders. I just got Terragen 2 deep and is it ever...and looking for tuts online and googled and got your tut, a Fellew dAer...And thank you is a pale appelation for what i mean when I say "Thanx a googleplex!"
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Anytime - hope future tutorials can be helpful as well.
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Thanks!
This will help me alot.
Terragen 2 seems quite complicated compared to terggaen 1.
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Yeah, it really is more complex than TG Classic. There are lots of great resources out there though!
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Nice, I want more Terragen 2 tutorials since all old tuts are completely useless now!
But maybe it would be better to call this an "introduction" than a tutorial because you don't actually describe what / and how you are doing things.
Etc, "...by selecting the color box we get a quick idea of what this layer is doing"... err? Do we? Were is the color box? My Terragen 2 doesn't have a color box anywhere. It does have a color TAB? And it does not provide any input field where I can type the height level where the layer is supposed to be. It has a "coverage" input field which seems to randomly choose where the shader is visible.
If you feel up to it I would greatly appreciate a more detailed tutorial because T2 is extremely confusing compared to the old GUI.
Thanks!
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Thanks very much for the feedback. Can I get your input on what areas of TG2 you'd like to see a tutorial about? Making a how-to for an image is one thing, and something like this intro is another, but I want to make sure any future info is really applicable to the user. 
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really helpful, now i can render without my scene looking weird...please make more
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Thank you so much for this tutorial
It helps alot in understanding the basics and a few beginner basics of Terragen 2 ^_^
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amazing tutorial thank you for this and all the other art work
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Thank you for the Help I appreciate it . I have been trying to find help with the program but been having no luck. Thank you very much.
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"Ohhhh...". Thanks for posting this tutorial. Yeah, I know, it's been up for a while, but it is by far one of the most concise tutorioI've seen elsewhere. Felt 
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thx for this tuto, i will try it directly.
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My pleasure, hope it helps!
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Thank you so much for this, I tried randomly pushing buttons and moving sliders but this was much more helpful to get me started
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Haha, yeah hope this helps a bit more than that approach. 
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How can you adjust the canera angel to see more of the sky?I kinda got stuck there..
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Thank you for this tutorial, i was left absolutely perplexed when they made Terragen 2 so complex. I saw the screenshots before the tech preview and i put Terragen 1s ease of use and the screenshots together and wasn't expecting the program to actually get harder to use, this has really cleared it all up thank you.
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Anytime, glad it helped!
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Nice one - couldn't make head nor tail of the technology preview when it first came out, and left it lying unused.
I can't say that I now understand TG2 (can anyone?) but this tutorial has helped a great deal. I have checked out a fair few guides and FAQs, but not one of them has been as useful as this.
Cheers.
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Glad to hear it! It's a really intense program, thanks for leaving an encouraging comment!
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Thanks man! I've been looking for a good T2 tutorial forever, thanks for both of them. Instant fav! Really a nice tool
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Absolutely excellent tutorial, It's really helped my get started with TG2.
I searched the web for about an hour for a good TG2 tut. Yours was by far the best I found.
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Thank you very much for the compliment! I'm glad it helped.
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Pretty cool tutorial. Works well also with the Mac version, except for the minor visual differences in the buttons.
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Good to know - thanks for stopping by!
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Anything specific that's confusing you? I know it's pretty CPU-intensive, but it's really not that hard once you get the hang of the controls.
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