Terragen 3 tutorial how to#
Terragen 3 tutorial free#

Go to the terrain control as seen under part 2, and render a terrain, messing with the settings. there are a few ways you can create one.ġ: Simply make it in terragen. Terrain: The terrain is simply your land that your surface map goes on. Well, this is where the next part comes in. But whats good a surface map if we don't have a terrain to put it on? Than Built ontop a Dirt layer, which will be the child layer of the rock, and will have its own child layers of shades of dirt (browns ect.) With different child layers of rock colors. It is many shades of green, Light green, a slightly lighter one, middle-ish one, and some darker shades.įor rocks, they arn't just shades of grey, but you can add in other colors, such as maybe some light browns ect.Īn example of a good surface map for a grassy like thing would have something like:Ī base rock layer. For example, grass is not just a simple green. I recomend that you have at least 4 shades of the color for each thing you are trying to represent. Now, continuing on with the whole, parent/child thing, you can continue adding on different shades of colors. right now its just a green with a grey, not that impresive. When you render it, you should see a green color over a light color for rock. on the surface map controls (under controls section) mess around with the controls untill you get it like you want. Than, you create a child layer for grass, lets say a green. So you have your parent layer, lets say a basic rock, which would be shaded a light gray. Think of it like this, The child layer always needs a parent layer to be around, kind of like in real life. Now, first of all i will explain the Child/Parrent layers.

without one, yours will just look like gray mountains, which, is not very atractive. Surface map: the Surface map is a very important part of each landscape. So, now that you know the basic controls, i can help you out in making your landscape look good :) i'll break it down into different parts here.

Terragen 3 tutorial how to#

Well, now to get to the main part of this tut, how to use terragen! he has some very good teraspace works there. You may see them all around deviantart, and sometimes being made by members of tip.it (including me) a good example of teraspace artwork is. What is teraspace? : Well, teraspace is when you combine a terragen landscape with a space scene. So, now that you've downloaded it, how the heck do you use it you say? Well, this is going to help you out here with the basic processes, and even going a step further into a thing called Teraspace.

Terragen 3 tutorial free#

Terragen is a free landscaping program used by many.

Part 5: Blending the space and landscape together. Part 1: What is Terragen? What is Teraspace?