im having problem copying and pasting in bryce 5... the image im making has a very high poly count... it takes FOREVER to copy a model.... my CPU speed isent an issue.. is it a RAm or HD problem???? i would like to know the chessboard im making is at a stand still...

copying complex objects always costs time. You could try to reduce the mesh-resolution of the wireframe. Copying and pasting also takes longer if there are more objects in the scene even if you just copy a very small object that would normally only take seconds can take a while if the rest of the scene is complex. You could make different scene-files and merge these.

also, if you go into skylab and turn everything off and then turn off antialiasing and render in preview mode it goes faster, at the expense of render quality.

Could somebody be so kind and give me a rundown on the copy and paste functions for Bryce. What would you use this for, depending on what you want to do wouldn't the duplicate and replicate functions perform the same tasks. I have tried to copy an object from one scene and past it to another but it does not work. I ended up doing as rayraz says in his post and created two scene files then merged them. Signed Confused

brycefreak, I don't think what you're trying to do is possible the way you're thinking of although I understand merge works. I haven't tried it myself. The other way to go and probibly the best is to press the create arrow and work in that dialog box to save a model/object. then you could use that saved model/object in another brX file by loading it again from the create arrow dialog. If you're still confused about this tommorrow and no one else has explained it better by then, let me know by IM (not email as I delete those unless I know who's writing me)and I'll post a screen shot. - TJ

Two other things to try. If it's a mesh click edit and unsmooth it while you work on it, then resmooth at the end. Make sure your static mesh resolution and selected mesh resolution are equal. This way when you select an object, It doesn't have to recalculate the mesh.

As an aside copy and paste between files work file. I have used it extensively to mode a model or object from one scene to another. There might be a RAM imposed limit on it but I have yet to run into such - I have 512 Mb RAM and when Bryceing there is nothing else open on that machine.