A free program called Terragen lets you easily create mountains in no time at all. Heres quick start guide to have mountains for your graphics in no time.

1.Go download the program from here.
http://www.planetside.co.uk

2. Hit World file>Generate terrain. then it will open up this menu.

Rundown:
-1 realsim of course is how detailed and realistic the textures of the
mountains look.
smoothing will smooth it out make it look not so rough and cgish.
Glaycionism and Canyonism determiens how low the valleys and
how high the peeks are
-2When finished with it and have your mountains the way you liek hit
generate terrain button and it will load your new terrain.
-3 This is a black & white displacement readout white being the peaks
and black being valleys any of you with previous displacement
methods in 3ds max will recognize this
-4 this is the rendering detail button on the render options menu to
vary from low to high poly renders.
-5 This is the final render thmbnail preview.

3. Copy my settings then render then varying on what you want experiment fom there.

 

 

 

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It's really tooooo easy with terragen. You don't even need any skills to be able to create this kind of mountain You can even do animations... like you're watching it from an helicopter.

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Looks pretty bogus to me. The program intself just allows you to edit some stuff like textures but basically everything's pre-loaded. Like Neverseen had said, Terragen makes it too easy and there's no point to it if you can't use your own design to actually make it. 30 seconds is a pretty short time to make such highly detailed mountains so i doubt that you have to put a real effort to actually look like mountains at all.

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It's neat in a way .. but I think if you're going to be developing your own game you ought to put a bit more thought and creativity into your graphics. To use an online generator proggy is sorta lame. :S Although, for the graphically challeneged (me!) it could be a useful tool.

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Here are my results:


good software man.Here is a full guide,many might find it usefull.

http://rapidshare.de/files/6638658/TERRA_GEN_GUIDE.zip.html

Thanks for sharing.

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This looks okay, but I don't really want to download a program without my own textures just to make a mountain.

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terragen is cool in the beginning, nut after working some longer with it you can see very fast that it's very limited. I mean there's always the same style of mountains which comes.. and now I can easily say if the 3d mountain was created with Terragen or not, because they're all same.

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Terragen is pretty good for if ur a total amateur at 3d meddeling sofware, but its has amazing results for such little work.
Some nice advice though.
thanks anyways

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Never really thought about making mountains. Always was into making brookes and forests which is somewhat complicated when your as stubborn as i am

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Its, urrm, odd is one word to call it but I think its quite cool.

My only paint and graphicing program is GIMP 2 because most other programs cost too much.

Do you guys think they're all overpriced as well or what, I think they're mostly rip-offs, except for the odd safe and secure program, that maybe takes a lot of space up, but is easy and simple to use and remove and saves in multiple formats.

I will consider making mountains and hills - even though it sounds weird, but cool. It'll probably take me nearer, say, what 30 hours

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