Rendering Moonscapes in Terragen

Now that you can download full Terragen files easily, there is little point having a full Moon tutorial any more. Instead, I offer you:

j_moon.tgw - a world file containing all the atmospheric and surface map information for a moonscape. (2Kb)

When creating a landscape to go with this world file, you should make sure there aren't too many steep slopes.

(unfortunately, all your moon scenes will be without stars. If you want to add stars to your render, you will have to find some way of doing this yourself. There are programs available which will do this.)

Using the steps described in this tutorial, I went from program startup to Render Complete in under 5 minutes (although the small image size may have had something to do with that!). The point is, it is easy to generate relatively convincing moonscapes in Terragen with little effort - it just takes some tweaking of settings to make it look better.