Thread: Seis' Animations, Renders, etc.

I'll take that as a no, it doesn't have infinite detail

All terrains in VUE can be zoomed into to infinity, or something close to it.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

I'll take that as a no, it doesn't have infinite detail

All terrains in VUE can be zoomed into to infinity, or something close to it.

Fractal is a fractal, you can input as much detail as you want. You can even do fake stones with a separate colour and bump map in order to make them stand out. How much detail is simply dependent on how much you can fit into the shader network and balancing it out with rendering time.

That's not what I mean though.

Every fractal terrain generated in VUE's Detail level is set by the camera, so you can continue to zoom into a terrain and not lose texture or terrain quality.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

That's not what I mean though.

Every fractal terrain generated in VUE's Detail level is set by the camera, so you can continue to zoom into a terrain and not lose texture or terrain quality.

That's the same with Terragen, as perlin noise fractal generators can go into a lot of detail, all depending on the number of octaves you specify (which you set, so the rendering engine speeds up the rendering process)

Yea, but this isn't a setting, it's just the way all terrains are.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Yea, but this isn't a setting, it's just the way all terrains are.

But with Terragen 2, it also allows you to do all sorts of crazy stuff with the terrains... more control on what you are able to do with them (because the fractal generators are used for all sorts of things, not just terrain. For example, the clouds and the textures)

I understand what you are saying, and you can do that as well, etc. But each terrain already has multi-thread-like Infinite detail. It has nothing to do with the fractal itself.