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nvseal — Procedural Planet and Clouds
Published: 2009-02-26 19:21:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 10309; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 2462
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This procedural TG 2 planet will, for the most part, hold up to camera altitudes such as this down to ground level. Still an on and off work in progress, hopefully more pic to come.Related content
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It's just... incredible! (I'm curently take a part in work over procedural planet generator for game project, hope our result will be near THIS)
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Sorry for my ignorance on the topic, but what is "procedural" and what program did you use to create and render this? (Looks amazing, btw.)
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Procedural, meaning algorithmically generated. Nothing in the image was created manually (unlike a 3d model, for instance) rather, everything was created by changing parameters for fractal generators using the program Terragen 2 (in which the image was both created and rendered). Thanks.
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Oh, very cool. Is there a way to export Terragen scenes like this into other programs (3DS max, Blender, Softimage, Maya... ) so props, etc can be added?
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It is possible to export some of the landscape for small areas (I've seen it done for 3DS max) but you won't have the same level of visual fidelity in the details. It is possible to import objects into Terragen 2 though as well. If you were looking to introduce high quality, close-up model renders into a Terragen 2 scene, the best option would probably be postworking different renders together.
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what exactly did you do here? I'm aware of TG's abilities, did you write a script or something for the terrain?
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Nope, the terrain is made by layering and blending a series of power fractal shaders with different scales and displacements. First, I have about three power fractals with large feature scales which go into a warp shader. Then I have (I believe)two other power fractals which have much smaller feature scales to make the actual mountains.
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Holy Crap!!
I use TG1 for the occasional background but DAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!!!!!!
I would have sworn that was a photo...
Superb!
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wow do you have tutorials for that or do you know where I can see one tutorial? did you need extre plug ins?
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Thanks, no plug-in needed for this, everything is made completely within TG 2. I've made one tutorial which you've seen in another post but that's the only one I've ever made. This particlular image uses a new node structure which I've never shared. I have shared hints about the clouds before but I've never shown the whole setup. I may have the clouds up for sale sometime soon.
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well if you are selling this or any other orbit shot with clouds I'm interested,let me know
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That's brilliant, and love the amount of details I can see with the big size (but it's understandable why the others aren't so big - there' art theives everywhere 
If Only I can steal your density functions for the clouds
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