Attached Link: http://www.mindvision.nl/uu/rayraz/

There's an animation at this link. It's DivX encoded and the duration is 4 minutes. The filesize is 35,8MB. There's a character animation in it, so everyone who thinks that's impossible to do in bryce should take a look at it. Some of this stuff still dates from 3 years back when I still used B3 and a 300MHz AMD K6II with 32MB of RAM. The total rendertime of the whole animation would probably be about 2 months, but don't fear, it's been nicely spread over 3 years. Thanx to Mindvision for hosting the file.

HRRRMMM Damn I can't see it on the Mac side, I use VLC player for DivX and I only get the sound GRRRRR....Mpeg that baby!!! LOL!!

Same here... it's not for selfishness, but you could really thing of uploading also a MPG version...

can't you download the divX codec? :?

DivX player and codec can be downloaded here

I click the link, but it wants to save as document instead of avi.

Actually its a zip file..it is fixed now.

Great effects, but the storyline was a little hard to follow :) Some very interesting work...

Not really much of a storyline in it. The Helios-part has a story in it, but I never got a narrator. The story tells about 2 planets. One planet had been industrialized and the other was left to nature. That way people could enjoy both technologie and nature. But after a while the industrial planet got so poluted that the people could not live there. Unforunately they also brought the toxics to the nature planet. In a last effort to survive the last people build a huge spaceship and decided to find a new home. Though before leaving, they destroyed their sun, and with that the now deadly planets. That way no-one could ever go into damnation on their old planets. (Is that a correct formulation?) I tried MPG-compression, but it either got a way to large filesize or a corupted file or an error-message when I tried to compress it.

I will see what I can still do about an MPG-version though.

Played on windows media player fine.... was funny and cool...I like messinf with bryces animations too...Great Job man...downloaded on cable modem in about 2 minutes...no problems...did the music take up most of the file size? Great Job...

Hey, pretty cool. I'm glad Robnobs mentioned Windows Media Player as neither my divx player or Quicktime player liked the file. Loved the dancing robot.

The music was 56Kbit/MP3 compressed, so that shouldn't have been too much data. I think the fact that the animation has previously been compressed also adds to the filesize. I think the compression-artefacts where harder to compress. I don't have the original uncompressed data of everything, and my video-editor is so unstable that adding just the 8 files used for this animation took 6 hours, 57 error-messages (wich all resulted in having to restart the program), 23 reboots and 7 lost files. Next time I make an animation though, I'll probably be more carefull with the compression.