The beauty of Bryce volumetrics keeps on amazing me. This is one volume sphere surrounding the camera with three radials with different lightgels applied. Trippy, huh? Stefano

This one is the same sphere, with a different material and one radial only to which I applied the previous image as a gel. Stefano Again

Cool.

Hi Stefano, I'm not into abstracts all that much, but the second image here, has caught my interest. I hope you don't mind that I have included a comparison image to better explain what I see. In the thumb picture it is more obvious than the larger image, but still somewhat noticable to a degree in the larger. In the thumb I see an image of a somewhat greek god with long hair. Like Hercules or Atlas. Sorry about the long babbling. It was an observation that I thought was interesting.

Take Care: Rich Z.

Well, lets all gang up on Doublecrash, lol. I was going to ask you if you have ever thought of taking your renders back into Bryce...as textures? Lol, hope ya don't mind. ;o) *Love that observation Z_Shadow!! AgentSmith

you can't have too many textures (recent count, I have 1,218..consisting, I think, of about 400 unique items..hate dupes, dangit..;) Bring 'em on..;) What's the render times on those? I've gotten exponentially longer times to render, depending on the number of volumetrics I use

hey Z_Shadow i know that guy that you pointed out in the image his name is Bryceman he's an underground super hero.

Wow, Rich, is amazing! I didn't notice anything like that, but now that you have outlined it... wow! AgentS, absolutely yes! As soon as I saw them on my screen, I decided I will use them somewhere. I'm trying them on Poser figures right now... yours seem very good planets... the textures are awesome! :-P LOL. Pakled: the first one took 6 hours to render at 1024, but I set SuperFine at 16rpp because I wanted to get rid of some artifact (one has remained, as you can see, in the bottom right corner, and to post in the gallery I did a bit of postwork). The second one took 3 hours at 1024 with SuperFine AA at 9rpp (<-- the only reason was that the estimate time was lower with this setting than with Normal AA) I've saved them at 1024x768. If you want to use them as textures, let me know, I will post here in the forum slightly larger versions. Don't remeber what's the limit right now, but I'm using them at 800x600 and it seems enough. Glad you liked 'em :) Stefano

thanks..I'm still a little shaky on conversions, but I suspected it was more than my typical 30 minute renders..;) I'm sure they'd do fine as textures or mats..you're on to something here...

Attached Link: http://www.j.b.allen.btinternet.co.uk/bigsite/tagtut1.html

Hi doublecrash, Just a thought, as you like volumetric abstractions so much you might want to check out the tut i did many moons ago :-) http://www.j.b.allen.btinternet.co.uk/bigsite/tagtut1.html cheers, Jonathan

"the textures are awesome" Its YOUR texture DC, lol. (from post #2) AS

Er, AgentS, I sort of joked on it... I recognized them, ya know :) Jonathan, your tuts are my Second Bryce Bible (after RWB4 by AuntiAlias). I've always found them simple and incredibly effective. This seems a very good occasion to thank you a lot for all the things I've learned reading and trying them. Stefano

You're welcome Stefano ;-) Glad you find them useful. cheers, Jonathan

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=Noel

Jonathan's tutorial got me started with volumetric thingies. I recently put a few new ones up in my gallery. Take a look, please.