I discovered this thingy on Bryce 4 under the terrain editor. I haven't a clue under any sun what it is, and I never could figure out what it is meant to do. Any ideas?

Uhm...it appears to be a KPT Spheroid Designer. But that's just a shot in the dark. AgentSmith ;oD

....lol. Yeah, it's classic MetaCreations, baby! Start clickin'! Don't ya just love how Metacreations would make GUI's that looked like you needed to be an alien to operate it? ...where is rochr, btw...? AS

Attached Link: http://www.dizteq.com/kpt3sphere.htm

Couple other related links. http://www.brovik.com/kpt-tuts/spheroid.html http://www.designer-info.com/master.htm?http://www.designer-info.com/Writing/kais_power_tools_3.htm AS

That looks so cool, how does a person get one of those and is it only good with B4?

I have the mac version plugin disk for photoshop of kpt 3 with book If'n anbodys interested

I had a copy of that lurking around somewhere, but I have no idea where it's gone!!!!

It will work in B5 also Ang, it is a cool little Photoshop plug-in. I don't know KPT is still selling, you'll have to look around the Net, maybe Ebay would have some.

"Uhm...it appears to be a KPT Spheroid Designer. But that's just a shot in the dark." :P AS, you fish! I know perfectly well what it SAYS! rolls eyes I'll check out that link, though. I googled "spheroid" and got zilch-ness. So I thought I'd ask here. Thanks! I'm off to bryce some more.

Doesn't Corel now do a KPT package, for sale at their site?

Aye, I've used Spheroid designer in almost all of my big landscapes. If you make a crazy spheroid, and then invert it you have... a BOWL! This techniques, in the terrain editor, kills the hard flat horizon's edge by making a "valley" that the camera can sit in. Also, most of my cave images were done with this plug-in, too!

So that's how they do the mirrored-ball-on-the-mirrored-lake stuff..;) Someone had a sale on KPT stuff recently, might do a search here..

AS wrote -> "Don't ya just love how Metacreations would make GUI's that looked like you needed to be an alien to operate it?" Well, that explains why Rochr can do things in bryce that no-one else can. One dial and button for each tentacle with an extra tentacle or two left over to hold the beer ;)

That's apparently one of the tools in Kai's Power Tools nr. 3. And one of those that're missing from the later versions of the set. I think there is a couple more in KPT3. I've got a later version and it doesn't have them. Keep it and treasure it! :-)

Aye, the later version of the set contained a bunch of Photoshop-only filters tha ran off a ridiculous preview magnifier-lense! Tey are pretty cool, I've never explored all of them but I find almost ALL of the KPT filters to be exquisite in the extreme. Thus, Bryce, in the first place?