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Terradome 3 Iray do you use it - do you like it

LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,929
edited December 2017 in The Commons

I'm thinking about getting terradome for some scenes I will do in the future where I need a bit of landscape. I never had the older version and have no experience with that system.

So I would like to know do you have terradome3 for Iray? Do you use it and like it?

Show me some of the renders you made with it, please

Thanks a lot!

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  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,367

    Yes.

    I use it quite a lot.

    some of the renders I've done using Terradome 3

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  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,929
    scorpio said:

    Yes.

    I use it quite a lot.

    some of the renders I've done using Terradome 3

    thanks a lot @scorpio , is it easy to use and make new shapes? are the textures that come with the original product enough or did you buy extras?

  • StormlyghtStormlyght Posts: 666
    edited December 2017
    Linwelly said:

    I'm thinking about getting terradome for some scenes I will do in the future where I need a bit of landscape. I never had the older version and have no experience with that system.

    So I would like to know do you have terradome3 for Iray? Do you use it and like it?

    Show me some of the renders you made with it, please

    Thanks a lot!

    Hi,

    I love Terradome 3 and use it in many of my renders. I have purchased all of @mortemvetus add-ons during various sales throughout this past year and I try to pick Colm Jackson's add-ons when they are on sale, particularly his HDR Skies for Terradome 3 because they can be used without Terradome as IBL lighting.

    I've included a link to a recent render using some Terradome 3 elements in my gallery at https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/458071. Hope this information helps. 

    Trish

    Edit: As for the questions you asked @Scorpio -- for me I use it frequently without any add-on packs (which I do have) and it is easy to create landscape morphs with the morph dials. Colm has a great YouTube video on how to use it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMvYfkwAH8.

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  • dreamfarmerdreamfarmer Posts: 2,128

    The way to think of Terradome is like thinking of it as a big flat character. You can’t really sculpt new shapes but each morph pack comes with a number of dialed ‘faces’ and mixing those can sort of generate new ‘characters.’ But you won’t ever be able to decide ‘I want a hill right here’ and just make that happen. I have at least one of the texture addons and use it often when I use Terradome. Pumping up the default displacement can help quite a bit. 

  • DaWaterRatDaWaterRat Posts: 2,882
    edited December 2017

    I find Terradome 3 to be great for sweeping vistas, rollng planes, and images where the environment is meant to be both big in and of itself and a big part of the image.

    I find it oversized when what I need is a couple of hills to provide a backdrop for a character portrait that happens to be outside.

    Still reccomend it, though.

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,602

    I bought it and I really don't use it. Results are only okay for me, but the product is slow to render on my machine.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,722
    Serene Night said:

    I bought it and I really don't use it. Results are only okay for me, but the product is slow to render on my machine.

    Same here. I found it to be resource heavy and useless when adding mulitple figures into the scene also. I actually returned it because of this. The product idea itself is great and it does work as advertised, it just didn't work for my uses as a background for a larger scene without killing my PC.

  • RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 916
    FSMCDesigns said:
    Serene Night said:

    I bought it and I really don't use it. Results are only okay for me, but the product is slow to render on my machine.

    Same here. I found it to be resource heavy and useless when adding mulitple figures into the scene also. I actually returned it because of this. The product idea itself is great and it does work as advertised, it just didn't work for my uses as a background for a larger scene without killing my PC.

    I think in particular the atmosphere settings are quite slow to render.

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,929

    Thanks a lot everybody! This gives me a much better idea. The renders I've see are really nice, and do more convincing than the promos for me

    dreamfarmer said:

    The way to think of Terradome is like thinking of it as a big flat character. You can’t really sculpt new shapes but each morph pack comes with a number of dialed ‘faces’ and mixing those can sort of generate new ‘characters.’ But you won’t ever be able to decide ‘I want a hill right here’ and just make that happen. I have at least one of the texture addons and use it often when I use Terradome. Pumping up the default displacement can help quite a bit. 

    This surely helps to imagine how it works, that was one thing I was wondering about. thanks a lot for that

     

    FSMCDesigns said:
    Serene Night said:

    I bought it and I really don't use it. Results are only okay for me, but the product is slow to render on my machine.

    Same here. I found it to be resource heavy and useless when adding mulitple figures into the scene also. I actually returned it because of this. The product idea itself is great and it does work as advertised, it just didn't work for my uses as a background for a larger scene without killing my PC.

    This is what I was a bit afraid of, and I know that in my scenes I will have some other resource heavy stuff already, so that would make the whole process a bit over the top.

    Thanks  for all the feedback, I guess I skip for now and piece my scenes together from other terrains I have

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,722

    Linwelly, you can always get it and see for yourself and then return it if needed.

    Have you try Aako's dry Mud desert? https://www.daz3d.com/dry-mud-desert

    It works great, very easy on resources, has an Iray version with several HDRI for sky and the textures are easy to customize in photoshop. i have jungle and snow versions I made

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,929
    FSMCDesigns said:

    Linwelly, you can always get it and see for yourself and then return it if needed.

    Have you try Aako's dry Mud desert? https://www.daz3d.com/dry-mud-desert

    It works great, very easy on resources, has an Iray version with several HDRI for sky and the textures are easy to customize in photoshop. i have jungle and snow versions I made

    I've been looking at that one as well, yes and I guess I'll try to go with it

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