draculaz opened this issue on Feb 08, 2003 ยท 28 posts
tjohn posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 5:58 AM
I hate to be the voice of negativity, but here goes. First of all, I acknowledge the right of the winners to choose the challenge. But: So many of us chose to use the "God" concept with January's "New Beginnings" challenge, that this seems a little like repetition. The concept of "Bryce only" ignores the fact that the creators of Bryce intended for users to import almost any objects they can find to use inside of Bryce. That is why Bryce will import almost all of the most used formats. To not use this ability severely ties the hands of those of us (like myself) who are lousy at modeling in Bryce. Even with metaballs, the results I get are hardly worth the effort (big headaches getting them to do what I want). This just leaves out too many of us who are newbies and non-modelers. I would maintain that if you can import it into Bryce, it IS Bryce (otherwise it couldn't be done in Bryce). If you have to manipulate the image in a paint program after the fact, then that ISN'T Bryce. Lastly, I don't really "get" this month's challenge. I'll just have to wait until some entries are posted, so I can interpret from them what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm just not finding any inspiration with this one yet. Once again, sorry for the negativity. :^)
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