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Bryce F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Feb 02 3:02 am)
Subject: Volumetric Lighting & Materials
Yup, I ususally don't go higher than 65, at most. All depends on the mat and the scene also, but still. AS
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Okay, I'm going to be a real novice here: Skay material? Render quality? I'm so sorry, but I love working with the sky and I'm wondering how this was done. Is it a material on like a sphere set in the sky? I haven't played too much with the sky yet. I just get lost working in the DTE for the clouds and stuff. If anyone cares to enlighten me a little I would appreciate it. :)
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Oh, and I like it at 50 also. And that flower with the lighting is great. Can't wait to see more of it if you are still working on it. :)
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Aye, Damia, some quick answers... For one, I try not to se the Skylab clouds any more. I feel like I've done everything with them possible, even after playing with Alvin's kickass skies I still want to explore new stuff. In this scene (the mountain/cloud scene) I used a huge sphere surrounding the scene, and a volumetric material which I tweaked heavily from one of VanLippe's cloud materials... So, the scene actually has an atmosphere. If I turned the density on the Volume material up to 100, the scene would be completely white, or damn close. Volumetric materials offer more flexibility both in the material itself, and in the shading modes. I'll post a screenshot of the scene and the cloud material I used, if you're interested. But, to sum it up, Volumetric materials have a Quality vs. Render Time slider. The lower the value on this slider, the faster it will render, but at an obvious quality hit. These images (except the flower) were all tests of how the clouds would look if I let it render longer, basically...
I don't mind long answers. I just said quick so I wouldn't seem to be a nuisance. :) I love skies and fog and whatnot but I haven't played with it much yet. I would love to see a screenshot if it isn't too much trouble. I will have to try that out. Now where do you change the material quality? I don't have Bryce open right now so I aplogize if it is obvious while in the program. Thank you for the response. I can't wait to try it! :)
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Just some quick tests of volumetric lighting and materials... This first one is a flower I made in Rhino, not very accurate but over time it will get cleaner. The volumetric quality is set to 32, a heppy medium with few artifacts but a decent render speed...