Overview
Terragen
is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic
landscape
images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac
OS. At this stage in its
development, Terragen is free for personal,
noncommercial use.
Although Terragen is a continually evolving
work-in-progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic
results for
professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation.
Terragen
has been used in a variety of commercial applications including
film, television and music videos,
games and multimedia, books, magazines
and print advertisements. For just a small selection
of projects Terragen
has been used in, please visit the commercial use
page.
Despite the
fact that Terragen can be used for professional landscape visualisation
projects, it
is accessible and easy to get started with. You could be
rendering your first landscape image in
as little as 15 minutes after
installation.
You can view a gallery of images
created by Terragen users
here.
Terragen has a native user interface, using facilities
provided by the operating system of the
respective platform, as opposed to
the custom user interfaces used by many similar applications.
This means
Terragen can follow the usage conventions of each platform as closely as
possible,
which ensures that it looks and feels just like the other
applications you use and means there is
no learning curve with respect to
the basic operation of Terragen. Here are some screenshots
of Terragen on
different platforms. Click to see larger images in a new
window.
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For all the latest
news about Terragen, please visit the news
page.
You can find information about the future direction of
Terragen, including a development
timeline, on the "what's for the future" page.
Registration of
Terragen is compulsory for commercial use. Personal users may also
register
Terragen to unlock a range of extended capabilities. For more
information about purchasing a
registration, please go to the registration page.