I thought the idea of a set of "Not So Primatives" would be good for the marketplace. So far I've thought of standard geometries, all the x sided pyramids and towers that were not included with the original bryce. Hard to morph or warp shapes like raindrops, eggs, piping and valves, industrial building girders ladders doors etc. If you've ever said, "Darn, I wish Bryce had a XXXXX" now's your chance to fill in the blank. I would gladly offer this as a prize should we start doing that in the contests. I'm too covered up to actually compete and need to concentrate on making cash.

Bryce already has an egg :D Rain drops are relatively simple with a few metaballs, too. Great idea though...maybe some windows?

There are quite a lot of these about as freebies, particularly variations on squares & triangles, but what does seem to be missing are variants of cylinders & spheres. I would be very interested in something like chamfered cylinders, and any of the more common shapes like pyramids, octagons, etc that have rounded edges. Using round-edged objects makes things look a bit less "computery".

Attached Link: Http://www.iaw.on.ca/~jspirko/

Judyk: Try this guy..........

There are at least three packs of 'not so primitive primtives', in freestuff and in the marketplace, and that particular lead line is also taken....for both Bryce and Vue... There are also packs of spirals, one called 'twisty', with spirals, twisted columns, horns, u-shapes, spiraled u-shapes, and then there is the installed presets with eggs, rounded cylinders, springs, octahedrons, hexagons, buckyballs and asst'd pyrimads, with 3,4,5,6,7,8 sideses, cones, twisted cones, rounded cubes, etc.... I haven't seen many stars though, single or multiple...

Crossed post, Jan! LOL. I just posted the link......:-)

Bryster: thanks for the link, but I've already got all John's extra primitves; very useful stuff. Many thanks for the thought, though! Electroglyph, what about gears? I've just spent 2 days multi-replicating prism-primitives around the edges of cylinder-primitives to make a clock movement. Gears would be nice... 8-)

there used to be a buncha these on Lannie's site..back when there was a Lannie's site..;) but hey, why not?
@judyk- there's a freebie program called 'gearmaker' in Freestuff..pretty simple to use, you select number of teeth, angles, etc., and it makes .dxf files..I've played with it a bit..check it out. (If it's not in Freestuff..a google search might turn it up).

pakled - thanks! I'll take a look.

Gears are soooooooooo easy to make as terrains that it doesn't seem necessary to have a app that does them, and with terrains you can make any type of gear you can imagine...

wayul..I been spoiled..it's like the Greek hedgehog..it has one trick..a good one..;)

GEARMAKER is excellent! I used it on 'WATERFALL'. It's just so easy! Zhann: making gears in terrain is beyond me...I wouldn't know how to start....:-)

Zhann: making gears in terrain is beyond me...I wouldn't know how to start....:-) Heheh... You're kidding? Just draw a gear (or gears) as seen from the side in white with a black background. Not too hard to do with some vector graphics programs. Speaking of unusal shapes - that's what got me started with Anim8or and then Wings3D. Booleans are good, but up to a point and then it just gets confusing to sort out. Making meshes is easier on one's sanity. (Wings can even make helical type gears by using magnets.)

oooooooo....might just have a go at that.......! THX

I don't know how you would go about creating the above object as a terrain...

...also I tried making a terrain version of a simple gear (above) by rendering its image in white-on-black then importing the image into the terrain editor. It produced a nice object, but with 32,768 polygons. the original object, made from extended primitives, was 456 polygons. I guess it'a a matter of personal preference, but I like to put a lot of detail into scenes, and I'm always on the lookout for space-reducing schemes. I would still be interested in low-poly 'primitive' shapes of this sort.

How about a set of windows and doors? I could group the door with a hidden rectangle on its hinge edge. You could rotate this group to open and close the door. I could also include a negative bolean. Just group with the wall and instant hole.