[Papervision3D] Terragen

[Carlos Lunetta]

Actually, it seems that people are moving the skybox just a little bit  
- it seems to make it more realistic - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybox_%28video_games%29


Zeh Fernando wrote:
> I think you already know this, but for the list: yeah, Terragen is 
> exactly what people use for this purpose, in games. They use skyboxes (a 
> box, generating 6 different textures) instead of a cylinder, so it works 
> like a perfect panorama but it's not a stitched sequence, and you don't 
> need a whole lot of triangles just to make it perfect. Just 6 planes.
>
> Of course in Flash/PV you'd need to triangulate the plane properly to 
> have good quality, but it'd work great.
>
> There's a bunch of downloadable skyboxes here, if anyone want to try it out:
>
> http://www.scentednectar.com/skyboxes/index.htm
> http://www.3delyvisions.com/skf1.htm
>
> Or anywhere google going people to when they look for 'free skyboxes'.
>
> Terragen is also free, so anyone can play with it and create their own 
> alien world skyboxes. As always, there's a lot of tutorials floating around.
>
> Going a bit further, since the skyboxes aren't just 3d objects that are 
> moved around - they're instead a cube that projects its inner faces 
> depending on the position the camera is looking for, you *don't* move 
> closer to its boundaries - one might need a second PV renderer just for 
> the skybox (one that stays below everything else), or need to always 
> move the center of the skybox to the position of the camera prior to 
> every render, so it won't cause any distortion. But again, I think it'd 
> work pretty well.
>
>
> Zeh
>
>   
>> The incrysis link has just been dugg and their server is down :)
>>
>> What I mean is that we could use Terragen to generate textures for 
>> panoramas.
>>
>> C4RL05
>> // noventaynueve.com <http://noventaynueve.com>
>> // papervision3d.org <http://papervision3d.org>
>>
>>
>> On 13/03/07, *Burak Özdelice* <delizade at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:delizade at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     hi
>>     link doesn't run :
>>     http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=2
>>     <http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=2+>
>>      
>>     and, is there any connection with Terragen and Flash or PaperV? i
>>     couldnt see any demo their site and i couldnt understand your message.
>>      
>>     regards.
>>
>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>         *From:* Carlos Ulloa <mailto:c4rl054321 at gmail.com>
>>         *To:* Papervision3D at osflash.org <mailto:Papervision3D at osflash.org>
>>         *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:47 AM
>>         *Subject:* [Papervision3D] Terragen
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         Looking at the latest CryENGINE 2 demos at
>>
>>         http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=2
>>         <http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=2+>
>>
>>         I thought we could use Terragen
>>
>>         http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen
>>
>>         Or even better, Terragen2
>>
>>         http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/f/tg2
>>
>>         To make panoramas like they do here
>>
>>         http://www.3dna.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=customization&Number=1398
>>         <http://www.3dna.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=customization&Number=1398>
>>
>>         C4RL05
>>         // noventaynueve.com <http://noventaynueve.com>
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