Hey guys, this pic, i posted here and some of you recommeded some changes, so, here goes...grins (seeing as how the fish in the fish tank i'm working on keeps crashing bryce) Added more trees, another rock in front of the bench, more trees in the back left, and a small terrain formed city scape in the back right, also, FINALLY got Ornlu's grasses opened, and added then in the trees at the base and around the bench. All the trees i do are modeled in the tree lab, slightly varied and colored, so these i believe where also. Most of these trees are copy and paste of the 3 first trees in the pic, and then sized, moved, and repositioned up and down... pretty standard looking trees though, so not challenge quality, but if anyone wants the settings, can post em. No AA done, and no postwork... JenC

ok, the jpg version of th epic seems to have WAY less color then the bmp that bryce saves...lol and it bmp version seems too large to post in the thread so hopefully this link works, if you wanna see the full color version... Here is the one i uploaded to geocities to see the full color. Jen

pretty good... but i guess it has to have a little AA since its a bit pretty rough... well ya know what i mean

JC_01 The bmp looks much better than the jpg. The trees on the left are a nice improvement. Nice work on this picture. I still like the water you have shooting out of your fountain. 8)

whoops, you seem to have exceeded your bandwidth, so I can't see the bmp, but from the jpg I can tell you that some of the empty space in the background needs filling. More trees, rocks, bushes, some variation in the grass (brown patches, dirt, etc.), maybe even a road. You might also want to remove or cover the sand (?) at the base of that mountain or give it a reason to be there. All in all a good start, and I like that fountain water.

the water is pretty easy to do, is one of those bolder type terrains, sized to fit in the rings, then the rain map that comes with bryce applied...lol but be warned, the pc's hate it...lol i wish i knew why the jpg was so much less colorful, i even tried playing with the coloring of it, and still, it didn't look as good as the original. Maybe i'll try to get a screen cap and try that way....the save as feature just aint cuttin it with this pic...lol haloedrain, i thought about blending in that gravel at the base of the mountain, but was afraid it would make it look too close, but will try it and see how it looks. I also want to play with the cityscape in the distance on the right a lil more.... i started with cubes, but was too hard to position that far offscreen, so switched to the terrain and edited it to look like skyscrapers. maybe i'll do the city scape in another file, and copy and paste into this pic, to make the positioning easier.. also, the path was to extend back beyond the trees in the foreground, but got cut off with the hilly terrain being higher then it.. thanks for the coments! back to the grindstone Jen

Hey Jen, I had a question. Are you exporting your pic as a .jpeg directly from Bryce, or are you taking the .bmp into another program and compressing it there?

i'm saving in bryce as normal, then opening psp7, opening the bryce bmp, then clicking save as, selecting .jpg from the drop down menu, then saving. this pic seems to be the only one with that much of a color loss....that's how i do all of em, but must be the lighting on that one that does it. (i can export the whole pic from bryce as a jpg??) whooooooo hoooooooooooo lol gotta try it Jen

Well, I can't actually recommend exporting your render as a jpeg from Bryce. In my experience Bryce's jpeg compression is fairly harsh. That's the reason I asked.