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Terragen: free Bryce knock-off lets you make your own world
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Aug 17th 2005 at 12:31PM
While I was blogging about making your own ILM yesterday one of my students tipped me off to Terragen (thanks Aaron). The more I saw of it the more it reminded me of Bryce. Terragen, like Bryce, is a special-purpose 3d app for creating amazingly realistic landscapes. It's terribly easy to use, even for 3d newbies. If you've ever banged your head on Maya, give it a try. Very refreshing. Not only that, it is free for now. No guarantees about the future, but I haven't seen any real problems with it so far. Terragen is chock full of features, some of which I don't see in Bryce (like a scripting engine). And you can't argue with the results... Oh, and it's available for OS X and Windows.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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d|g|ta| said 6:58AM on 8-18-2005
Knock-off??? Slightly harsh dont ya think?
Also you might want to add in World Machine. A great app for creating more complicated land formations which can be imported into terragen.
http://www.world-machine.com/
Overall Terragen is a fantastic free app!
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Dylan said 11:07AM on 8-18-2005
Yeah, it's free, and I think it's gonna stay that way. Terragen has literally been out for years, and hasn't changed much through the ages.
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