More playing with Terragen backgrounds. When I get ahold of a new technique, I just have to run it into the ground, hence the cheesy orbital shots.
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In each of these cases, I've had to composite them with Photoshop, since this is the output of two programs. The Executor pic below here is a pure composite, multiple images aligned together, in fact, the original images were of a much higher resolution. That's why the edge of the Executor itself kinda looks, well, matted. These two pics render the Terragen background with the final picture directly, and I can see the difference between the two. All that tells me is that I need to learn how to do better compositing, because I'm not always going to be able to render a background image in 3DS Max and get away with it.