Terragen skybox

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Terragen classic

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. Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use, with only a few limitations.

Terragen Classic is capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen Classic 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 Classic 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.

Download terragen classic from the Terragen classic download page rr There is an inspirational gallery of skies created with terragen classic here

Make your scene

There are a great many tutorials on how to create scenes using terragen and the application is relatively simple and encourages exploration.

Having created your terrain this tutorial will describe how to create the images that you'll need to import your landscape into Urban Terror as a skybox.

Making skybox images

Before we proceed you should first confirm that your scene is suitable and your camera is position correctly.

Common mistakes when making skybox images with terragen

• Your camera altitute is too low
• Your camera is inside the ground or a mountain

For these reasons I usually place a camera at 30m above the ground and tend to make only flat landscapes.

(the camera isn't embedded in a mountain for example).