3Jane
16.January2009, 12:25
Finally I convinced my employers to buy the beta of GC2 and I already started working with it.
Its an absolutely stunning software and its usefullness is much greater than most people realize. Its not only good for simulating massive landscapes I even try simulating the microcosmos thats directly under our feet. Dirt, sand, gravel and other interesting structures that can not be simulated well by any other software so far.
Well the possibilites are mindblowing to say the least. I'm still working on finding out what each filter can do and what ways there are to abuse them and find out about how to create more diverse surfaces.
Actually I prefer GC to create maps for Realtime or Offline use over all procedural (2D) generators because a) their algorythm thend to be no so good or even suck at representing natural surfaces and grain b) the (normal) maps they create are all wrong.
Not so with GC. the algorythms of the filters rock! Too bad it got no tangent space export but its not that much of an obstacle because I can export as 4096 .obj terrain and bake whatever I like in an external application like zbrush or xsi wich can luckily handle this huge amount of polygons with good hardware. Anyway thanks for all the good german quality product you made and I hope to give you some more feedback very soon.
Its an absolutely stunning software and its usefullness is much greater than most people realize. Its not only good for simulating massive landscapes I even try simulating the microcosmos thats directly under our feet. Dirt, sand, gravel and other interesting structures that can not be simulated well by any other software so far.
Well the possibilites are mindblowing to say the least. I'm still working on finding out what each filter can do and what ways there are to abuse them and find out about how to create more diverse surfaces.
Actually I prefer GC to create maps for Realtime or Offline use over all procedural (2D) generators because a) their algorythm thend to be no so good or even suck at representing natural surfaces and grain b) the (normal) maps they create are all wrong.
Not so with GC. the algorythms of the filters rock! Too bad it got no tangent space export but its not that much of an obstacle because I can export as 4096 .obj terrain and bake whatever I like in an external application like zbrush or xsi wich can luckily handle this huge amount of polygons with good hardware. Anyway thanks for all the good german quality product you made and I hope to give you some more feedback very soon.