• Vesper

  almost 2 years ago

  OMG....If you haven't bought this tool yet you are an absolute amateur. I own Scatter and Botanique and Alpha Trees. I bought all of them last year with a bunch of ocean water shaders and while they are great at doing what they do best they always lacked everything else that would help. I had to buy a water shader, then a scatter shader, then a texture addon then then then..... I bought this hesitating after reading some of the negative reviews.....and MAN....I am so glad I did buy it.

  The way I would describe this tool is that it is essentially a WORLD-building tool. While the other addons on the market feel like addons that cover one aspect of landscape creation who do one thing particularly well this tool does it all. Just to mention that I bought it with the Sky add-on they made also and yeah amazing every looks so real.

  I needed a scene complete with ocean and sky and vegetation. The whole process took me 15 minutes.....yes you read that correctly 15 MINUTES WTH!!!! It took 10 more to make the render, but I am fine with that...normally to get anything descent before it would take me half a day LOL.

  I am astounded that this tool exists, it feels more like a collection of tools rolled into one. Honestly, I don't think it's fair to even call this an addon, it literally feels like it is its own program. Terrain creating, texture ready, water ready, sky ready, snow-ready.....it's worth easily 3 times more.

  I have been making scenes now with it galore, it uses Cycles which is a bit heavier in terms of load, but honestly some of the stuff you just can't make it in EEEVEE, I tried the light baking is punishing, I get why others have complained in their reviews but if you want this level of realism and quality you gotta go Cycles anyways. The Devs were super responsive and answered all my questions, their discord is super helpful and friendly.

  Am I going to drop the other addons I own? No! But what is gonna happen, is that a lot more of my general world-building and nature design will be funnelled through True Terrain.....you have to see the snow they made and honestly by far the best-looking water shader I have seen on all the market, and I bought many :(....it looks absolutely realistic....great Job, can't recommend enough. Customer for life...

• Ian Watts

  almost 2 years ago

  Honestly, this is the best environment tool that I have found. It's not the simplest but things that are worth it never are. Customer support and community support on the Discord Channel are amazing - a very friendly bunch. If environments are your thing and you want a great community of like-minded people then I would highly recommend

• Eric

  almost 2 years ago

  Very nice.

• mentaloh

  about 2 years ago

  This add-on is great!
  I manage to work with a gtx 1070.
  For biome shaders it is possible to set 1k for the viewport and 2k or 4k for rendering.
  I coupled this add-on with the Nisarga ultimate add-on which provides a very complete and good quality asset collection.
  With a few hours of learning you can very easily have very good results!

• manuel888

  about 2 years ago

  Great product and support

• Michaela

  about 2 years ago

  Great addon, works smoothly with your own textures too .. I´m creating real life terrains with contour lines and sculpting and then using this addon for making it look realistic. It´s amazing, it surprises me in a good way on every step. It is simple to use, yet you have control over so many attributes and I never encountered a single crash. It helps you to create your art work xx-times faster. Thank you for creating such excellent addon.

• Michael

  over 2 years ago

  Love this so far but I am having an issue when placing trees. It seems when I delete the trees in the scene section of blender and then respawn them, True terrain wont respawn them. Am I doing something wrong here? I am using Cycles.

• Ulrich

  over 2 years ago

  This is a great product, I had trouble with placing trees and when I went onto their discord I got an instant response. I am someone who knows barely anything about computers and they were very patient and helpful. Would highly recommend

• jiho

  over 2 years ago

  It's a very good addon but it needs more tutorial I hope, thanks for this good stuff

• Doug Turner

  over 2 years ago

  I don't like this product. I've been hesitant to review it, as I know it's complex, and needs some study to make work properly. That said, straight out of the box, adding a second ground shader grinds my computer (a very fast PC) down like accidently adding 10,000 grass particles to a scene. So, I can use a ground shader and a cliff shader without wrecking things. There's no reason 3 materials mixed on a landscape should even vaguely slow things down. I even use the speed up shader option. I routinely model in Evee with many 4k materials, lights, fog etc, because I enjoy doing so, and my computer can easily handle it. As a matter of fact, the only thing at all that grinds my computer down is complex water shaders and thousands of particles. But even if I just use 2 shaders on a landscape, the resulting mix is often jaggedy, as though it's somehow applied per triangulated face. Other mixers don't do this. There's a terrain mixer for sale here for $1 that does a beautiful job of slope mixing right out of the box. My point is, if I need to study this product more to solve those basic issues, I don't want to. On to the spawned assets. Agin, out of the box, I had to fix an issue with them floating. You need to drill down to the offset slider and set it to zero. Why? Another very popular nature asset set on this site spawns nicely on the ground, no need to adjust anything. It's also exetremely heavy. I mentioned that earlier concerning the 3 ground materials mixed. Just be warned that my extremely fast PC that has few issues with anything stumbles on this. Other people seem to love it. Shoulder shrug. I have Pro, the latest edition as of Sept 30, 2021. It seems to be somewhat overstated in the demo video. Just my constructive, well-considered thoughts.

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  True-VFX

  over 2 years ago

  Hi Doug,
  As you mentioned in your review, you're using Eevee... We explicitly state that this addon is not for Eevee and Eevee will cause slowdowns when mixing materials. This is because Eevee cannot handle complex shader trees.

  In that respect, the one star is a bit irrational as you're grading the product on a feature its not built for.

  If you'd have ever contacted us, then we could have made this clear and helped you work through any issues that you've had, but we've never had any contact from you whatsoever.

  I do appreciate your comments however, as its a valid argument for making it clear not to use Eevee, so in that respect, thank you for your comments. Rating is still a little low in all fairness though..

  Kind regards

  Rich

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