TerraCin
This plugin provides the means by which a Terragen terrain file can be imported in to Cinema 4D and be setup for composition.

This is a released as a shareware product. If the plugin is of use to you, please feel free to contribute to the running of the site. This is entirely optional, please don't consider it an obstacle to you using the plugin

Plugin Information:

  • Version: 0.2
  • Author: David Johnson
  • Date of Release 28-Oct-2003
  • Tested on:
    • Windows XP with Cinema 4D CE+ (Works)
    • MacOS 10.2.5 with Cinema 4D CE+ (Works)
    • MacOS 10.0.6 with Cinema 4D R8.2 (Issues)
  • Results from older versions of the plugin:
    • Windows 2000 with Cinema 4D R8.1 (Works)
    • MacOS 10.2.8 with Cinema 4D R8.2 (reported Issues)
    • Windows XP with Cinema 4D R8.2 (reported Issues)

Whats New:

New in version 0.2 is the ability to read in animation scripts in order to control the camera and light in Cinema 4D. This is still quite experimental and bug reports would be most welcome with respect to this. A BSD style open source license has been added to the software. I still haven't saved up enough money to purchase a Mac so the testing is still currently limited to Windows XP with Cinema CE+. I hope to resolve this soon.

Summary of Capabilities:

The plugin will currently load in a Terragen Terrain file and the texture for the terrain so that the view through the scene camera will match the image generated with terragen. Once imported the environment can then be used for scenes or animation.

Examples:

To be completed

Notes:

Please provide feedback on this as I am interest to make it as portable and useful as possible, this can be done by clinking here. There are possible bugs in the positioning and setting of the FOV with respect to the camera but the more information about this the better.

Documentation:

Documentation is available in several formats: HTML (online and offline), Microsoft Word, PDF

Download:

Download the plugin from here (Zip File) or here (SIT file)

Contributions:

The cost for this plugin is £10 (GBP), I can accept payment through PayPal (Please click on the icon and follow the instructions). If using PayPal is not acceptable, (although this is the easiest method) please contact me and I am sure we can work something out. As mentioned before this completely optional.