VistaPro

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

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 operated similarly to a ray tracer in that light paths were generated. You could set light sources, and camera angles. The ground could be coloured to create different ground styles. It had impressive water, tree and cloud effects, making some images almost photorealistic. The ground itself could either be generated from a random (or user inputted) number, or it could use DEM landscape files for real-world views, coming with a number of maps of Mars and Earth.

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