GIS, CAD, and mapping daily news provided by Spatial News SpatialNews. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use Terragen is a freely downloadable 3D rendering program capable of producing very impressive landscape rendering and 3D landscape imagery. Terragen can render sequences of frames which can later be compiled into animations. This is accomplished by using third-party software developed for this purpose. The developer explains that performance should be acceptable on a Pentium-based system with 32Mb of RAM, however, a Pentium II or better with at least 64Mb is recommended.
Educational users can register at a reduced cost.
Online support for the product appears to be excellent, mostly due to an apparently very helpful user community. Online resources include an FAQ , a discussion list, suggestion list, and a Developer's corner . International users will be pleased to find the user guide published in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch. The author apparently has some plans for the future of the product. Export surface textures.