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Yeah, Gothix is incredible with digital art. Absolutely everyone should check out his DeviantArt page here. He rocks. And there's been some crap with his old member name so his stuff's been moved to his new one. Check it out. :)

 

As for you, MrWally: Nice Terragen, and welcome to the boards. Have a good time and don't act like a newb, for you will suffer the consequenses. :p

 

I don't do any Terragen and the like but I do very much enjoy my digital camera. :D

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Is Terragen just a terrain generator, or can you place other objects in the scenes? I mean, while some of those pics look nice, they're mostly very similar and a tad boring because there is no key focus for the attention.

 

At least with something like Bryce, for example, you could make some terrain and place other objects in the scene to give it more interest.

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It basically generates it but the tricky part is getting a unique feel to it. You create a terrain map, a cloud layer, the atmosphere light, the atmosphere effects and a water layer and baiscally just fool around with it.

 

Personally I have a thing for sunsets and I try to make everyone of my pictures using unique colors and angles. This probably comes from constant rubbing off from my father, who's a photographer.

 

Oh, and I've only been doing terragen for a couple of months.

 

Lol... 3rd time i've edited this post.... I checked out Gothix site and I noticed he uses World Machine as well as terragen. And he uses photoshop 7. I personally use pure terragen, but i'll be sure to check those out!

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Does that mean you actually downloaded it MarcusLeCoy?

 

First off you might want to look for a tutorial online, or mess with presets, but DON'T GIVE UP. Personally I just fooled around for like a week and eventually got the hang of it, so you don't need a tutorial.

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They can, however, be very helpful.

 

When I took my one-year High School Photoshop course in Houston, it was all tutorials, with hand-holding from the teacher. I still learned Photoshop quite well (although most is temporarily forgotten now as I don't have Photoshop at home).

 

The problem with tutorials, though, is that they are very linear and not at all open-ended. So I advice you follow some tutorials and spend the rest of the time experimenting and exploring.

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Does that mean you actually downloaded it MarcusLeCoy?

 

First off you might want to look for a tutorial online, or mess with presets, but DON'T GIVE UP. Personally I just fooled around for like a week and eventually got the hang of it, so you don't need a tutorial.

 

 

Roger that. I'll try figuring this stuff out tomorrow.

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They can, however, be very helpful.

 

When I took my one-year High School Photoshop course in Houston, it was all tutorials, with hand-holding from the teacher. I still learned Photoshop quite well (although most is temporarily forgotten now as I don't have Photoshop at home).

 

The problem with tutorials, though, is that they are very linear and not at all open-ended. So I advice you follow some tutorials and spend the rest of the time experimenting and exploring.

 

 

Haha, yes, I completely agree in the case of photoshop, which is much more confusing than terragen (My family owns everysingle version from PS2).

 

I tried out that World Machine and it's pretty cool, but kinda confusing. If anyone here knows how to use it wanna give some pointers? :D

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http://map-review.com/index.php?page=tutorial_view&id=2

 

Here... a tutorial... it teaches you how to make skyboxes for JKA/JK2... but don't worry about that, it mainly focuses on the program. Just skip the stuff thats for JKA. Also, you don't have to take 6 renders, thats only if your making a skybox... just read over the settings and play with the program. :D

 

EDIT: This tutorial isn't what you described above. Wedge just teaches you about the settings, tells what they are for and what can be done with them... other than that you do what you want to do.

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