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Terragen - Photorealistic Scenery Rendering
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on Thursday June 29, @08:20AM
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Vector One reviews Terragen, a phtorealistic scenery rendering tool (free for non-commercial use). From the short review: "It should be noted that this program exports the terrain generated and it does so well, including 3ds and dxf formats among others, which will place anything you create in the program directly into most GIS and a short hop, then, to any Geographic Explorer System (GES) - working both GIS and CAD environments." I tried Terragen a long time ago and was impressed by the ease of use and rendering quality. See also Virtual Terrain Project's list of similar software.
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