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Hi guys. I just started to learn Bryce and I think is a great program. I have a question for you. I saw on many sites that they got some wallpapers which you can download. This wallpapers are on different resolutions (800x600, 1024x768 and so on). How can I save my work in Bryce in order to get my jpeg with different resolutions. Thanks!

First: welcome to the Bryceaholic Anonymous :) Second: Bryce works mainly with BMP (if you have a PC) and PICT (if you use a Mac). The resolution of the rendered image is the one you choose in the Document Setup and/or in the Render Options pop-up. I recommend you to go to the Edit-->Preferences menu and choose "Image wiht Scene Open/Save" (see screenshot above). Doing so, you'll have your image named after your scenefile and you'll be able to stop/resume a render anytime. Third: You can then set the different desired resolution, and JPEG compression, in every photo-editing software later. Take into account that it's almost always better working *reducing* the res instead of the opposite. So, for example, it's better to render at 1024 and then downsampling to 800 than vice-versa. Fourth: Happy Brycing... --- Stefano

I would suggest setting up Image with Scene Open/Save, ( as double crash showed ). But I would also recommend not messing with that image. It is the image Bryce calls on when the project is opened. Any alteration will keep Bryce 5 from being able to resume the render. Bryce 4 and below the image might not even open, after it's been opened in another program. To save the current render of a scene, go to File/Save image As or Export Image, various formats ( bmp, jpg, tiff, exc..) can be selected. The file menu is hidden, hold the pointer at the top of the Bryce window to reveal it

using the File > Document setup menu (or simply double-clicking the large render button) will bring up the setup menu which allows you to set the size of the current scene. After a render, when you save the scene, Bryce will automatically save the last rendered image as a .bmp. You can use any number of other graphics programs to convert/compress this .bmp into a .jpg. It's been my experience that using File > Save Image As > (anyname).jpg rarely give good result.

Thanks for your replies guys. I really apreaciated. From what I read above I understood that to get my work on different res. I can change the resolution from Document Setup (double-click on render botton :)). I saved some pictures using this resolution: 1024x768. I also saved a picture with this res: 800x600 I know the difference between them is the quallity. But it is only the quallity? What I want to know is what are all the differences between my pictures on this different resolutions. I know that it's a very begginer question, but can somebody give me some infoemation here??? I would really appreaciate it. Thanks! cocoalex

I'm not sure I understood well your question, but... the quality of the output image is not affected by resolution directly. If you try to enlarge an image (say from 800 to 1024), you will get poorer quality in most cases. Sometimes, downsizing the image could cause a loss of detail and could require a further sharpening. The real important thing is the resolution at which you render the image, not the res at which you save it later. The quality is affected mostly (I'd say a good 75%) by the quality settings you set in Bryce. The rest is hist... ehm, postwork. :) Stefano

What resolutions have you set for your Bryce? Is a good idea to design in Bryce using 1024x768 in order to resize (to let's say 800x600) later to a smaller res?? cocoalex

I have my document setup to 800x600 due to my little laptop monitor. But for the renders, I change usually the document size to 512x384 and render at 1:2 (1024x768). Then, usually, I downsize the image about 10% before posting. If you check my last Bryce images in my gallery, they're 1024 with the frame. The actual image is about 950x712, more or less. :)

same here... I have a 17" monitor at 1024 x 768. So a document size of 800 x 600 works just right on the Bryce screen. For verticle pics I'll usually work at 450 or 500 x 600, just so everything fits on the Bryce workplace. Then when it comes time to render, I'll render at 1:1.50 or 1:2.00, especially if I'm going to do any post-work liking painting on the image. (easier to paint on the larger image). To put it on the web, I use Photoshop (personal preference) to compress the .bmp to .jpg and resize it back down to original size to post in the forums here. Sometimes a full-size version will go in my gallery. You'll have to play with and get to know whatever graphics program you use to convert to .jpg to get what you feel is a good balance between file size, image size, and image quality.

Doublecrash quote: "I have my document setup to 800x600 due to my little laptop monitor. But for the renders, I change usually the document size to 512x384 and render at 1:2 (1024x768)" You lost me here. So, your work space for Bryce is set to 800x600. And when you render your work (file) you change the size of your file to 512x384 and the render res to 1:2 ?????? Why are you doing all that? I have a AMD Duron 700 Mhz and 256 SDram and the render process takes a lot of time. Are those changes you make help you to render your files faster??? Is this the reason you make all this changes?? How importantant is that render resolution?

I think he uses a wireframe view of 512x384 because it fit's well in a 800x600 desktop. Most people have a desktop res of 1024x768, so it's sort of a standard final-render output res. That way you can use the image as background for instance. And if you want to print your image as a poster you'll end up rendering at high resolutions. Mostly between 2560 and 6000 pixels wide or high. However these resolutions are not very handy when you want to view the wireframe. That's why most of us render at different resolutions as the wireframe-view.

Cocoalex, Rayraz got it just right. Summarizing: I work on a 800x600 canvas. When I've finished, I change the document res to 512x384 and, in the Document Setup menu, I choose to render at double, aka 1024x768, for the reasons that Rayraz said. Stefano