Hi guys! I'm thinking about put some rain in the image i'm doing.... do you know any good technique to make an acceptable rain with bryce? thank you in advance

I know a trick (of my own) for those kind of FX. I use the same technic than photograph by adding filters in front of my camera.. To do that, I paint a rain effect (photoshop) with little white lines on a black layer. Once done I import the rain pic in Bryce and apply it to a 2D plane. In the material editor, I choose the pic as transparent chanel (A) and set the diff and Amb to white. Then I put the 2D plane in front of the camera. Don't forget to add some soft grey haze to your scene (because rain looks like fog in a distante vue).. hope this will help. Cheers. Pidjy

You can also make a good procedural raindrop texture. I use about 3-4 planes in front of the camera to give better depth.

there is another trick.. for a good rain.. if your computer is waterproof.. take some eagle's feathers.. and Dance a rain-dance LOL.. just kidding (don't try that at home!)

I use a raincube which gives a nice 3d effect. If you would like it send me your e-mail. Cie

many thanks guys!!!!! i think i'll try the second advice of pidjy, i have only to finds a couple of eagles... ;-p trouble... i'll email you soon....

Damn pidjy beat me to it!

Even better than a rain dance... Render a newly washed Brycian car. ;) Guaranteed Bryce rain within 3 days. Seriously though, the good advice was already given. :)

Go out-doors, wash the car, and grab your digi-cam.....Sorry! I couldn't resist.....LOL Pauljs: great minds think alike!

Come to Wimbledon for the tennis.....loadsa rain.

LOL guys, a lot of exciting tricks to have rain thank you for your support!!!

Somebody had rain in the free stuff. It did a fairly good job

There's also a way to create rain (and snow) in Photoshop, as postwork. As a side note: on 3D world issue 37 (Gollum on the cover) there's a tutorial on creating rain-hit water in 3D Studio. Something similar to what pidjy used for the water surface up above.

Attached Link: Raincube

Here's the link for the raincube mat. AS