Photorealistic landscape images and animations creator for Macintosh
Editor: Terragen for Macintosh is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. Although Terragen is a continually evolving work-in-Progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic results and has been used for a wide range of commercial projects, from film and television to games and Multimedia to print work. Terragen Mac uses a native user interface, as opposed to the custom user Interfaces used by some similar applications. This means that the basic operation is the same as other apps you are used to and that familiarity helps you get started with Terragen more quickly.
Terragen Mac is specifically designed to give the kind of user experience Mac users expect. It follows the Apple human interface guidelines for both OS 9 and OS X. It takes advantage of a number of capabilities unique to the Mac. It has good basic AppleScript support, allowing automation and animation, currently providing more capabilities than Terragens native scripting system. There are a number of Velocity Engine optimisations which accelerate certain functions on the G4 and newer. It uses Quartz for high quality graphics on OS X. Terragen Mac also takes advantage of QuickTime for a variety of tasks from saving images to importing images to use as terrains to creating QTVR Panorama movies. Terragen Mac supports distributed animation rendering using Apples Xgrid technology you can free download Terragen for Macintosh 0.9 now.