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[Torak]

It's not polite to discuss such things here =).

I don't see why piracy is such a taboo thing to speak about in public, unless the person(s) you are talking to happen to own a multi-million dollar company which loses business because of it. Hell, I could say that I own (counting ones long-deleted) over 100 pirated games (which I do), and the companies couldn't do anything to me because I'm anonymous. And I'm not stupid enough to give out my address in public.



Also, I'm pretty sure I sent a PM to IWM, I think. It's not showing up on the 'sent messages' part of 'my messages'.

[Draco18s]

Nay, I'm just asking about the Torrent hypothetical of acquiring things, because everyone said it would be bad for mah system. It would be bad!!!

Hypothetically I would use a torrent tracker website that has user ratings of the downloads, such as www.isohunt.com.  If you want to be super careful, check the rating and the comments on the torrent download link to see if anyone encountered a virus.  I recently had a nasty run in while trying to avoid a torrent hypothetical download.  FireFox is dead in the water for some reason.  I've been having other minor issues with Windows recently and the machine is over 3.5 years old, so if reinstalling !!Fox!! doesn't work I'll be reinstalling Windows.

[Torak]

Hypothetically I would use a torrent tracker website that has user ratings of the downloads, such as www.isohunt.com.  If you want to be super careful, check the rating and the comments on the torrent download link to see if anyone encountered a virus.  I recently had a nasty run in while trying to avoid a torrent hypothetical download.  FireFox is dead in the water for some reason.  I've been having other minor issues with Windows recently and the machine is over 3.5 years old, so if reinstalling !!Fox!! doesn't work I'll be reinstalling Windows.

www.demonoid.com Is the best tracker, because they actually moderate their torrents instead of it being a cesspool of viruses. Just the other day a torrent that ended up being a huge system fryer was deleted about 3 minutes after it was submitted. Great moderation.

[pickupsticks]

I'm not sure why this "hypothetical" discussion has arisen here.

When I clicked on the Terragen link in the first post, and went to the "download for Windows" section, I saw this:

Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use. In this case registration is optional, but it entitles you to additional benefits and removes the restriction on image size.



PS: shhh!  You never know who will be listening...

[Dasqoot]

Here's a render I did looking west from my current fort. The largest human civ with about 35 cities to the right of the ocean, straight ahead, on top of the closest mountain is a goblin nation, to the left in the bumpy parts live the elves that didn't get killed by the humans.

Cool program btw, free alternative to maya and you can set your boundaries and skybox effortlessly, compared to most height-map editors. I used to use old 0.1 terragen for GTK radiant, glad to see they got a little less constricted.

[Davion]

Cool image, Dasqoot.

Yeah, I can use Maya to look at the height map, but if you want to render it out it takes a lot of tweaking to get it looking realistic, plus you usually need a plane with thousands of subdivisions to get it looking anywhere as detailed as a program like Terragen.

[Dasqoot]

Hey Davion, do you know how to import something like the vegetation map from DF into Terragen? I read the guide, and downloaded a separate addon that was supposed to let me use textures in the freeware version, it was the right version of both, but I got a message on startup that "Terragen will not be using xxxxx-program".

I basically want to export all the options from DF and use them as alpha layers to control the look of vegetation and clouds.

[Cthulhu]

Does anyone know of a program I can use to turn it into a 24-Bit Uncompressed TGA? Gimp can't seem to do it, I can turn it into a TGA but Terragen won't take it.

[Davion]

Hey Davion, do you know how to import something like the vegetation map from DF into Terragen? I read the guide, and downloaded a separate addon that was supposed to let me use textures in the freeware version, it was the right version of both, but I got a message on startup that "Terragen will not be using xxxxx-program".

I basically want to export all the options from DF and use them as alpha layers to control the look of vegetation and clouds.

I am not really sure, I was trying to play with vegetation awhile back, but I couldn't find any way to import a fractal to generate where vegetation was. It will let you import textures but that doesn't really manage where stuff should be growing.

I've just sort of been eyeballing it.

Does anyone know of a program I can use to turn it into a 24-Bit Uncompressed TGA? Gimp can't seem to do it, I can turn it into a TGA but Terragen won't take it.

Maybe this

[Cthulhu]

Epic Engrish in there.  I'm not going to get viruses from it am I?

[Davion]

I have no idea I was too scared to download it

[Cthulhu]

Virus or not, don't use it.  It places a huge rectangle on like a quarter of the image, that says it was made in the trial version.  You render the terrain and there's a mile-high wall in the middle of the map.

[Davion]

I figured it was a trial version, seems like you can't get file converters without paying out the ass first.

[Angellus]

I'm not sure why this "hypothetical" discussion has arisen here.

When I clicked on the Terragen link in the first post, and went to the "download for Windows" section, I saw this:

Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use. In this case registration is optional, but it entitles you to additional benefits and removes the restriction on image size.



PS: shhh!  You never know who will be listening...

what he said.

[Mephisto]

Does anyone know of a program I can use to turn it into a 24-Bit Uncompressed TGA? Gimp can't seem to do it, I can turn it into a TGA but Terragen won't take it.

Gimp can't do the 24-bit uncompressed tga, but it can do the 8-bit sgi that Terragen also accepts.