VistaPro

VistaPro

Vista and Vista Pro are very capable 3D landscape generation programs originally for the Amiga range of home computers.

Its most famous use was for the landscape used in the opening credits of The Chart Show. This sequence involved a silver spaceship flying through a series of valleys that had been generated using VistaPro (Vista didn't support generating animations until the Pro version was released).

Vista operates similarly to a ray tracer in that light paths are generated. The user specifies light sources, and camera angles. The ground may be colored to create different ground styles. Vista has impressive water, tree and cloud effects, making some images almost photorealistic. The ground itself may either be generated from a random (or user inputted) number, or it may use DEM landscape files for real-world views, the software having come with a number of maps of Mars and Earth.


=See also=
* Terragen
* USGS DEM

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.vendornation.com/ VendorNation: VistaPro vendor]
* [http://www.creative-3d.net/vistapro.cfm VistaPro 4.11 Review]


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