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50 years after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which flattened trees up to 8 miles from the blast, the mountain's greenery has returned.

This is the first Terragen 2 alpha image to be shown featuring 3D objects. All objects have been loaded and rendered directly in the current "TGD" alpha. There are 310,00 trees, 580,000 bushes, and 85,000 "grass clumps", totalling over 13.5 billion polygons before culling. As you can see TGD can do objects, and it can do them well. :D

The 3D objects used are from an XFrog freebies archive here: [link]

Also note the moon is a full 3D object - I could render a scene from the moon looking back at this planet, for example. The moon uses a photographic texture of our own moon mixed with some procedurals. The features of the moon have actual height.

The terrain is a 2049 DEM of Mt. St. Helens. I didn't use a higher resolution version because it didn't make much difference at this distance from the crater, and with vegetation covering most of the surface.

Post processing was done to make it look a bit more like a photo, and included a bit of levels and other color adjustment, a slight glow effect, minor selective sharpening, and a vignette effect (commonly seen in traditional photography). The unedited version is available upon request, but is not significantly different.

I hope you all enjoy this small look at the future. More is coming soon. :)

Daily Deviation

Given 2005-10-23

Hold your breath - this is terragen. ~javajones is one of the lucky few to be alpha testing version 2 of terragen known as TGD. 50 Years Later is a taster of what new features it offers, as is his gallery. Enjoy this one. (Featured by `alyn)

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:iconludwig1300:
and where is the new terragen?

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:iconmr-clandestine:
Awesome work. The detail is great with a real photo-realism look! Nice work!

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:iconsethlebatard:
one of my fav' pic ! congratulations dude ^^
:iconops101ex:
Wow, simply amazing.

One thing, Mt. Saint Helens never had that many trees, and never will. The tree line is actually near the very bottom of the mountain.
:iconbattlefield1010:
nice man!!=D really cool and congrats with ur DD!!=D=D:) :+fav: question: how do u get Terragen Alpha? do u have to pay for it?

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:iconmoodflow:
I thought this was a photograph when I saw the thumbnail! I can't wait for TGD to be resleased.
:iconnewyorkino89:
speechless....

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:icondistortedtruth:
HELL YES TG2!!! I CANNOT WAIT!!
:iconz-design:
If I was alyn, i would have dd'd this in a second. In otherwords, would have done the same thing :)

Great job on this. I faved when this was submitted
:icononesixone:
:D Awesome. TG2 is gonna rock! :excited:

What are the chances tha a total noob could create something like this though?

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