• 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.

• 

  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
• Hiroshi

  over 2 years ago

  This is a very nice add-on !

  I purchased the ULTIMATE version. I believe it's worth more than the price.
  Great documentation and tutorial videos.
  It was easier to operate than I had imagined, it was lighter in operation, and I got great results.
  I haven't tried water yet, but I'm looking forward to it !

  I'm Japanese and I want to introduce it to Japanese Blender users, so I'll write it in Japanese as well.（私は日本人で日本の人にも紹介したいので、以下は日本語で書きます。）

  What I actually found out after using it.（使っていて気が付いたこと）

  1. eevee でも結構いい感じの結果が得られる。ただしDisplacementは効かない。なので、eeveeだと、のぺっとした仕上がりになる印象。
  2. Cycles -> Experimental -> GPU Compute
  　Subdivision ->Dicing Rate Render(6.00 px) & Max Subdivisions(8)は（1920×1080設定では）必須設定。レンダリング時間が大きく変わる。
  3. Assets -> Trees -> Ultra はレンダリングがとても重くなる。ハングすることもある。Medium 品質で十分な場合が多いと思う。※木は草や岩に比べ結構重くなる印象。
  4. Pure-Sky と組み合わせてCyclesでのレンダリングは非常に厳しい。（Pure-Skyのボリューム関係のノードがCyclesではだめなのだと想像。Pure-Skyで太陽光源の位置だけセットし、World設定をPureSky以外のものに切り替えたりなどすると結構いい感じになったり。）
  5. カメラの焦点距離にこだわった方がいい。Blenderは標準で50mmになっているけど、風景としては望遠すぎるので24mm などがよいかと。7mmなどにすると壮大な絵になります。
  6. Pure-Sky はeevee 前提のアドオンだと思いますがTrue-terrain もeevee はまぁまぁいい結果を作ることができるので、夕焼けや明け方などではPure-Skyと組み合わせる場合に限り、eeveeの方がかなり良い絵作りが可能です。
  ※クリップサイズに注意。Blender標準のカメラのクリップサイズは、0.1～1000m ですが、Pure-Sky は10～40000mを前提としています。なのでTrue-terrain の前景・近景も見せつつ、Pure-Skyの雲を見せたい場合は、0.1～40000mということになります。クリップサイズの幅がかなりひろくなるので、レンダリング時間が多少伸びます。そこはいろいろ設定で対処。
  7. Assets -> Trees(Rocks) -> Place とし、Click to Place すると、木（や岩などのアセット）を置いていけますが抜ける時はESCキーで。抜けないと操作するたびにアセットが置かれます。※最初これで結構はまりました。

  以上です。
  Pro-Lighting: Skiesも購入して試してみようと思っています。

  Thank you creators for the wonderful add-on !

• Omid

  over 2 years ago

  Wow, these low ratings here and their comments are so unfair. If anybody is here to check the rating, please read the reviews of folks who gave it a 1 or 2 star. You'll notice that none of them - as far as I can tell - are fair or make sense.

  This addon is fantastic, and even if there is an issue, you can message the developer or join their discord and ask your questions.

  I'm happy with the purchase!

• Stefan

  over 2 years ago

  I just love everything about this add-on! Appreciate the in-depth YouTube tutorials and documentation. Only thing I really would love to see is a a bunch more tree species, a few more sand textures especially for deserts, dunes and dry lands + one or two textures for salt lakes / salt flats for grounds. Other than that I'm super happy with those realistic results!! Very impressive =)

• Claus Bohm

  over 2 years ago

  Except for one person everyone else in the last year gave this addon a 5 star rating ... nuf said!

• Peter Nebelong

  over 2 years ago

  First of all, I don't want to insult the creators in making this rating of True-terrain but I also want to help people with budgets not to spend unreasonable amounts of money buying add-ons to Blender that I find are not being honest about their update policies.

  I bought TT pro 3.0, less than a year ago and at that time it was the most expensive tier you could get and I/we were promised free updates forever. When you buy the highest tier (Pro version) of a add-on you don't really think that 6 month later they will just obliterate the promise of free updates they made by releasing an "Ultimate" version and ask you to pay an additional $50 to get to the highest tier again when the most reasonable thing to do would be to "upgrade" PRO customers to Ultimate, when it is really just a "smart" change of name that they made to their product. Even worse is that "we have to hurry about upgrading" because it will be even more expensive if you wait much longer and it will never ever be cheaper again. This seems like a very dishonest way of treating customers and now we can likely expect to see an "Ultimate Plus" version if this behavior goes unchallenged. The new price for the highest tier is now said to be $139 which is really pushing the limits for an add-on which requires Blender to function in any meaningful way and as you all know Blender is free. For that amount of money you can almost get highly professional terrain creation products and they will not promise you updates that you will then see disappear because they release a new version that now only gets the new features and assets which they promised that you would get with the original purchase.

  Add-ons for Blender has to use GPL license in order to comply with the openness build into Blender and GPL demands that you make no restriction to what the code can be used for, as long as you provide the same opportunities (GPL license) if you change the code and distribute it yourself. We don't do that because we appreciate the work of the creators and want them to provide good work for the community but it does require honesty and not acting like even most developers of proprietary software would do.

  Don't make a promise that you will not keep by circumventing it with another tier that vill receive most of the added content and maybe also most the features one day. This is not honest. I love Blender and Blender Market and I want it to keep on being the great place for selling and buying honest products that it has been so far.

  Unfortunately I will not be able to answer after posting this rating and I have already pointed out these problems to the creator of TT but didn't get any understanding for my views as a customer that feels bad about the broken promises.

  BTW, I have bought more that 50 add-ons here but only once before encountered this bad policy.

• 

  True-VFX

  over 2 years ago

  Hi Peter,

  It's unfortunate that we're not able to upload images here, as we'd be able to show the conversation that we've had with you all morning about this, a conversation where we explained the decision that was made about pricing, and how that pricing does not affect updates or features, purely amount of content.

  When you purchased True-Terrain in November of 2020, you got the product for close to $30. True-Terrain pro is now $59 as we have added more content and features. You did not have to pay any additional fee for this update/upgrade, it was provided to you for FREE, as all our updates are. Is this not fair?

  We have also provided all customers with a of Pro and Lite, with coupon codes for moving up a tier at a cost reduced in line with what the current price of their tier is. For example, if you wish to upgrade to the Ultimate Tier, from PRO, then you are given a $59 reduction in price (the price of PRO as of now) Which actually means that in your case, and anyone else who got PRO before it cost $59, means that you're getting a higher discount, than anyone who paid $59 for PRO. We thought this was fair!

  We sent a survey out last year, asking all customers that had True-Terrain, to let us know what they think of the pricing (at the time) how much more new content they would like in the next update, what they thought that the RRP of that version once released would be, and whether they would like the option of a higher tier, and whether it should be free to people who already own the product. The answers we received for this, led us to the current pricing, and addition of a higher tier. That way allowing people with any level of budget to purchase a product. We also even offer a free version, available for download via our product page. Based on customer feedback, which we though made us fair?

  We also explained all of this to you in the email exchange earlier today, both about the pricing, how you actually did get your free update and upgrade, getting over 80 new assets at no cost in the PRO version, moving from 3.x to 4.x. We also explained to you that, we are still a business at the end of the day, and we do this full-time, we can't just give away content after spending over 7 months working on it. We couldn't move PRO to Ultimate without moving LITE to PRO. We were also told explicitly in survey responses, and even now by our community, to not keep giving content away for free. Which we do regularly, and even in your downloads, there's literally a download called "gift pack". Seems reasonably fair to us..

  In regards to the whole "you won't get this cheaper comment", that's entirely correct, people will not get the chance to upgrade to Ultimate, any cheaper than they have been able to for the last 2 months, after the 7th of September, as that's when the price will increase, meaning that the jump between tiers will cost more. That being said, the date the price was to increase was the 1st of September, and we had a lot of people contact us to ask if we could push that date back, as the sale was on, and people wanted more time to upgrade. So we pushed the date back from the 1st, to the 7th of September. Again, just another thing we did to try and be fair.

  GPL means nothing when it comes to non-code content. We don't charge for features, or anything to do with the core features of the addon. We charge the fee we do, based on the content that's available. We think that 160+ texture sets, 8 procedural materials, 4 water types, 8 grass types, 11 rock systems with over 50 unique models, and 5 tree systems with over 50 unique models seems pretty fair for the cost of Ultimate too. It is, however not fair, that you email us telling us that "[you] expected to have been moved up a tier" and that "[we're] being greedy, by charging what we charge", and "how we can justify it, when Blender is free". Blender is free, so is True-Terrain, Blender makes money through donations, we make money through selling products.

  > "Unfortunately I will not be able to answer after posting this rating and I have already pointed out these problems to the creator of TT but didn't get any understanding for my views as a customer that feels bad about the broken promises."

  We understood your views, and explained the rationale behind the pricing. You didn't understand our views, after several emails back and forth, then contacted us for support around how to import your own materials and assets, then sent a final email thanking us, and wishing us success, only to leave a 1 star review riddled with inaccuracies about the actual exchange between us.
• Mr3D

  over 2 years ago

  Loved it
  Must have Add-On for realistic renders of course its heavy but its worth it because you will get almost real results out of it
  Thank you for making this Add-On possible
  :)

• Jim Hart

  almost 3 years ago

  Love the new updates in 4.1! This is an awesome pack! Keep the improvements coming!

• 

  True-VFX

  over 2 years ago

  Hey Jim, thanks for your kind words. We will try our best to keep it up, and keep implementing things based on community feedback!

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