Terragen

Syllabus

Week 1 - Getting to know the Terragen interface
- Create a terrain
- Adding a body of water
- How to work your camera
- Previews
- Use a surface map
- Your first render

Week 2 - A closer look on the Terrain Editor
- Different kinds of terrains
- Draw your own terrain
- Save your terrain
- Moving the sun, and change it's appearance
- Cloudscape
- Reflecting water
- Render Big

Week 3 - Surface Maps
- Edit a preset
- Save your own surface map
- Make a surface map from scratch
- Understanding surface layers
- Adding Children and siblings
- Making snow capped mountains

Week 4 - Athmosphere
- Sky is the limit (seize, height)
- Sunrise, sunset
- Cloud colour, cloud thickness
- Haze and Athmospheric Blue
- Save your World

Week 5 - Plug-ins
- Water works
- Import terrain
- Camera settings
- Bitmaps
- Making a "man made" construction

Week 6- Other programs used with Terragen
- Terrain resources (DEMs, World Machine, others)
- Images as Surface maps
- Postwork. Do's and Don'ts
- Wrap-up