gw::TerraNoise - Awesome Terrain Noise Generator

[Robbie]

Found this program over at CGTalk...its VERY cool for generating noise based terrain displacement maps as well as normal maps and whatnot...I'm just now playing with it, but here's a terrain map I generated using a ridged multi with a curve modifier.

I'll post a render shortly.

Download the program (and other cool utilities) here: http://www.guruware.at/main/index.html

[Gamerprinter]

Looks pretty awesome, I am downloading it now!

[ravells]

Yum! Thanks Arcana!

[Torq]

This is fantastic Arcana. I put together this rather inhospitable planetary terrain, using the Terranoise Generator and the Gimp in five minutes flat. The underlying terrain is based on a rideged perlin.

Great find.

Torq

[Robbie]

Yeah There's all sorts of things you can do with this thing...make sure you also experiment with the spherical projection and cylindrical projection. You maybe could get a good globe perhaps?

My render didn't go too well...I put motion blur on it and it screwed it up, I'll try again though.

[ravells]

Hmm when I click on 'none' in the exporter I get a 'no map exporters available message' - am I doing something wrong?

Ravs

[Robbie]

Did you link your generator to the exporter?

Each thing that you create on the board has to be linked from the left to right...like in this screenshot.

[ravells]

yes.....did that but still no joy. do you think the dll files that come with it need to be put somewhere?

[Robbie]

Yeah...I kept the directory structure of the zip file that came with it and just extracted it into a folder into program files called terranoise.

[ravells]

Still no joy . I'll try emailing the author. In my explorations for an answer I found another ground terrain generator, Gugila, here

The full version is expensive at $180, but there is a free lite version. The only problem is that you need either 3d max or autodesk for it to work.

Ravs