Welcome to Fractal Terrains 3Fractal Terrains 3 (FT3) allows you to create entire detailed worlds, edit them and export them into a variety of formats. The worlds can be based on mathematical functions, created from real-world data, or based on a flat, featureless globe. You can view and edit the height, rainfall, climate and temperature. You can export data to formats including CC3, HTML and VRML.What's new in Fractal Terrains 3?- Added support for exporting Campaign Cartographer 3 maps.- Added texture climate shader for using bitmap textures for climate areas.- Interface has been updated to use a variety of Windows themes.- Added Cosmographer 3 template export.- Added output of current view as 16-bit heightfield PNG.- Prescale offset painting tools are now available from the toolbar with the other painting tools.- The PNG image format is now supported throughout FT.- Performance scales better with the number of processors available on the system.- Added normalize tool to manually fix problems with painting in earlier versions that could cause black areas to appear on the world.- Fixed -180/+180 boundary drawing problems.- Fixed bitmap export crash problem.- Texture climate shader now works on sea areas.- Zooming to rectangular are improved.FT3 Update 3.0.12- Fixed the Textured Climate Setup dialog not loading texture files and settings.FT3 Update 3.0.11- Removed the "maximum resolution" preference because users kept confusing it with editing resolution.- Added /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag to allow for 4GB address space on 64-bit windows and 3GB address space on 32-bit windows (need /3GB switch on XP boot.ini). This change should make working with larger files a little easier.- Added projection, save, and showshader script commands.- All shaders now appear on the main menu and context menu.- MDR files appear in the binary file filter. They should load properly now, too.- Fixed problem with improper management of window proportions in image save dialog.- Fixed problem with freehand selection tool stopping selection when used with mice that send multiple move messages without actually moving the cursor (many laser mice).- Fixed issue with PNG saves coming back as 16-bit PNG saves on the next save command.FT3 Update 3.0.10- parent links in HTML exports change to than relative paths rather than absolute ones- Help buttons doing nothing or linking to broken help entries fixed FT3 Update 3.0.9 Fixes since 3.0.0:3.0.1 Tool Incise_flow script command fixed.3.0.1 Registration writes serial key to correct place.3.0.2 Save command allows saving of unmodified command (later removed again)3.0.2 Fixed export of Cosmographer 3 template.3.0.2 Cosmographer 3 export saves image as PNG file.3.0.3 Save As command not working fixed.3.0.3 Climate selector toolbar not working fixed3.0.4 Fixed hang when loading brush presets.3.0.4 Should have more reasonable defaults for painting tools.3.0.4 Should fix gradient painting values (wasn't reading toolbar data).3.0.5 Increased screen render resolution to 6000x6000 from 2048x2048.3.0.6 Fixed color interpolation for altitude and other items when pickinghighest or lowest values.3.0.6 Fixed missing line segments where lines crossed viewport boundaries(made it hard to assemble multiple files into a single large segment).3.0.6 Modified renderer to reduce the amount of bad shading at the bottomrow and right column of images.3.0.6 Sheets setup wasn't being read back from xpt files.3.0.7 Climate selector toolbar items now correctly set image overlay color(for simple create mode).3.0.7 Climate selector toolbar items now correctly sync the climate painttoolbar selection.3.0.7 Fixed a crash bug on exit after painting image overlays.3.0.8 Fixed color to altitude selection tool.3.0.8 Fixed pick button on color to altitude conversion dialog.3.0.8 Fixed problem with starting FT given a command-line ftw file namethat would cause a GPF.3.0.8 Added Wilbur advanced paintbrush setup dialog. Activated via "C"button on painting toolbars.3.0.9 Added "exepath" registry entry on FT3 execution.3.0.9 Updated help index to remove CC2 entries3.0.9 Fixed broken image in Create Overlay help topicOlder updatesNew Features for Fractal Terrains Pro (version 2.3)- Added simple temperature model for integration with Astrosynthesis.- Added Incise Flow operation to menu and scripts.- Selections can now be loaded from regular image files such as PNG, JPG, and BMP.- Ctrl+Drag changes size for painting tools.- Added force altitude to scripts.- Added Remap Altitudes tool.- Color keying is now an option when importing a color image as an overlay.- Overlays can be defined in screen space to allow for more interesting coloring options.- Overlays can be defined to occupy only a specific altitude range.- Selections can be modified to occupy only their borders.- Fixed gamma on mound tool.- Added Profiled Mound tool.- Added Gradient tool.- Added Image Climate shader.- Added tool settings toolbar.New Features for Fractal Terrains Pro (version 2.2)- Added PNG support for input and output.- Added toolbar pictures to the menu items.- Added Distance Selection operator.- Added reselect option for selections.New Features for Fractal Terrains Pro (version 2.1) - Math Tools for editing -Cosmographer template export -Sphere Map Export -Bump Map and Normal Map shaders for 3D rendering packages. -Advanced Altitude editing page changed. -Ruler now works for planar as well as spherical worlds. -Crater tool now works for planar as well as spherical worlds. New Features for Fractal Terrain Pro (version 2.0)- Rivers- Simple Create Mode- Color To Altitude Conversion- Multiple Image Overlays- Scripts - Interrupted Projections - Conic Projections - New fractal function types, including Wilbur compatibility - Interrupting pan tool (hold down spacebar) and zoom (+ and - on keyboard) work with any tool. - Options for arbitrary number of grids and grids can cover just part of the globe. - Nudge operation for globe (Ctrl+arrow moves globe 1 deg in direction). - Pan operation (arrow keys) moves display in the direction indicated. - Noise tool available for whole world / selections. - Deterrace Tool for data cleanup. - Basin Fill Tool. - Lake Finding tool. - Individual crater placement tool. - Planetary Bombardment tool (craters everywhere) - Multi-file output can operate from the current map view. - Creates directories when creating files if the directory doesn't exist. - Can output arbitrary-sized binary data for use with external programs. - Property Sheets instead of dialogs for World Settings and Lighting Settings.