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Gosh! I guess the challenges are supposed to force you to learn! *lol* but this little detail almost drove me insane. So, what did I learn in school today? **Set that darned terrain resolution first, silly!**

Perhaps you saved someone else the frustration of 'learning the hard way' .... thanks for the advice!

Man, that is looking good!

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Thank you, tjohn. :) Of course I suppose the most of the work was done in Photoshop, smoothing the beejezus out of the photography. *lol* Also masking out the angels, so that I in reality got 2 terrains that fitted together. The bacground with the columns rather dark grey. and the masked angels also gray, but with a lighter grayish tone. So what I did in Bryce was 1) created the terrain, - and into the terrain editor I went and **set the terrain resolution *g*** to gigantic resolution. I assume that it would work wil a bit less, but for this I used that. 2) I went to the picture thingy in the editor, and pasted my gray image into it, - then OK'ed out to the scene. 3) I duplicated the terrain, and **did not move it**. went back into the terrain editor. Since this was a duplicate the terrain resolution was correct. I went to the picture tab, and this time just pasted in the masked version of my photo. (had to smooth it and lower it a bit). Then OK'ed out to the scene again 4. Grouped the two terrains, - and applied the colour photography as a material. I used the same technique for the house fasades and windows in the linked image. Only here, I made sure that the window areas became "empty" (clipping in the terrain editor), so that I could put in glass panes in the window frames. :) Evidently, I must have set the terrain resolution in that image correctly by accident! *lol* Because I never had the problem there. If anybody would like to see screen shots of the terrain editor etc, just gimme a yell, and I'll put it up. And Sharleen; *lol* do you suppose somebody would gimme back the hair I've been pulling out the past coupla weeks? *lol*

;o) My cat will lend you some... hehee

P. S. Ohhh. and I do agree with tjohn... that image is really awesome...looks terrific!

That looks really great. And thanks for the advice, i'v been working on an image in the past couple of hours and couldnt figure out why it turned out so nasty, now thanks to you it all makes sense :)

That is really looking so much better Britt!

That's really a great job there britt, I just love the detail work you managed to pull out of this, awesome really. Yep, nothing like going through the school of hard knocks before getting a merciful revelation. But thanks for passing that useful information. Hair? Let's see, I've got an old stuck together paint brush laying around here you can have. Great work!

Actually you don't need to change it before you paste, if you bring in an image and then want to increase the terrain resolution, select the res you want and then hit 'apply' it may take a second or two to change to the res you want...

Not quite sure I get you. :) I "think" that's what I did with the "yucky" result. Or do you need to go back into the pict part of the editor and hit "apply" there after changing the terrain resolution?

Yes, Britt, that's exactly how. You can change the res, go back into the pict editor and reapply the pic. Or you can set the res before loading the pic.

Aha! :) Thanks a bunch. I restarted my image totally from scratch again, good thing to know if I ever forget to set the right resolution.!