TerraRay for Pc

This app looked ike just what I needed, but it doesn’t work at all on High Sierra on either my Macbook Pro or my iMac. The “preview” is just a white box that never changes. If I do a “Full Render” I sometimes see items I’ve tried to place, but other times not. Fairly useless app at this point.

Some parts wor others not on OS Catalina. New cloud development bombs the app and some sliders do not work at all. Most of the ratings are 7-8 years old

In ten minutes I had completed the tutorials. In thirty minutes I was rendering out pictures like the ones above. This software is freaking awesome. Use brushes like standard, spike, circle, noise, erode, and water erode to draw in terrain. Combine with filters like add noise, clamp, equalize, and flatten for better drawing control. Paint in materials (self created or choose from the many built-in) in layers over terrain using brushes or handy auto fill presets like steepness and height (for things like snow capped mountain tops). Also paint in built-in texture objects like plants, rocks, grass, leafs, flowers, sand, and wheat. Use the material editor to create your own textures with control over diffuse and bump strength. Customize water with control over transparency color, overall height, wave size, wave twirl, wave height, refraction, and mirror color to create just about any liquid you can think of. Change the sky to day or night with control over turbidity, horizon brightness, horizon luminance, circumsolar intensity, circumsolar width, backscattered light, and whether the sky itself emits light. Add multiple custom light sources. Blend customizable volumetric clouds, fog, and haze with light to create amazing looking light rays beaming down. Add models into the scene — choose from the many built-in like castles, towers, churches, houses, bridges, statues, cars, trucks, ships, trees, plants, animals, and basic geometric shapes or even import your own custom 3DS models. Move the camera anywhere with control over field of view and even different camera types including orthographic and multiple perspective camera presets. Use the Fractal Terrain feature to quickly generate prebuilt (with uniquely randomized features) starter scenes like mountain(s), rising hill, canyon, and valley. You can also build your scene and then later use Fractal Terrain to change the ground while retaining models within the scene (although they get moved around if you’re changing the ground underneath them). Fine tune with advanced customizable post processing effects including far depth of field, near depth of field, bloom filter, vibrance filter, and depth tint. Render to extremely large resolutions and control quality with path tracing samples, path tracing bounces, light samples, anti-aliasing passes, anti-aliasing samples, and clouds/fog step size. When finished export to PNG, JPEG, or TIFF and share via sharesheet to email, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Messages, AirDrop, and more. My favorite feature is the customizable canvas sizing. I run triple monitors and have a desktop resolution of 5760 x 1080. It’s so much fun to create beautiful, gigantic landscapes that I can then use as my desktop wallpaper. I highly recommend anyone (beginners especially) interested in creating supremely realistic quality 3D scenes to grab this. Using the this app toolset well can produce renders equal to those generated from much more expensive softwares. At this price point, everyone is invited!

For those who bought a $15 app and are complaining it's not Bryce, grow up! I would say that this app is worth every bit of the $15 charged. It does what it says it does and does it pretty well for $15. The aproach to the UI is refreshing and addictive to play with! Lots of easy to use options. I was up and rendering my first pic in less than 30 minutes. There are a couple of things that do need a little work. First, it's only a 32 bit app? Really? Seems to me that this type of app would benifit from going 64 bit. Rendering speed is the other issue. You can create some great images if you can wait a bit for them to render. I have one of the new Core i7 iMacs and it's still pretty slow. This doesn't seem like a bad program, just an inmature rendering engine. I'm glad I bought this app and can't wait to see what the future holds for it. BTW, I have been using Ray Tracing software since back in the POVRay days on i386 so I am no where near new to these types of apps... It's $15, just try it.