Creating QTVR movies from Terragen
There are a number of tutorials on how to create QTVR movies from Terragen scenes. Most of these, however, use a basic script that is centred on your terrain which is not always the most interesting point of view.
Render Control
- Note the X,Y,Z coordinates of the Camera Position in Terrain Units
- Set the Image Size with identical values for Width and Height
- Check the Camera Settings
Camera Settings
- Set the Zoom to 1 (90°)
Edit the script.
I use the following script, replacing XXX, YYY, ZZZ with the coordinates of your POV and setting the output filename and path..
initanim,"drive:\path\filename",1 ;framenum,1 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,XXX,10000,ZZZ camb,0 frend ;framenum,2 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,10000,YYY,ZZZ camb,0 frend ;framenum,3 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,XXX,0,ZZZ camb,0 frend ;framenum,4 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,0,YYY,ZZZ camb,0 frend ;framenum,5 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,XXX,YYY,-10000 camb,0 frend ;framenum,6 campos,XXX,YYY,ZZZ tarpos,XXX,YYY,10000 camb,0 frend
Create the QTVR
Most tutorials use utilities like Gocubic which take the images produced by the script above and create a QTVR file. I prefer Panocube because it offers more customisation of the final QTVR, but since it uses equirectangular images, it requires an additional step of creating an equirectangular image first. This is done using Panorama Tools with the following script:
p w4000 h2000 f2 v360 u0 n"TIFF" m g1 i7 i n"cube0001.bmp" o f0 y0 r0 p0 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0 i n"cube0002.bmp" o f0 y90 r0 p0 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0 i n"cube0003.bmp" o f0 y-180 r0 p0 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0 i n"cube0004.bmp" o f0 y-90 r0 p0 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0 i n"cube0005.bmp" o f0 y0 r0 p-90 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0 i n"cube0006.bmp" o f0 y0 r0 p90 v90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 g0 t0
The resulting TIFF file is then dragged onto Panocube for conversion.