Attached Link: Sibenik Cathedral.

Some of you may know Ratto, he used to work with Bryce but seems to have switched to Vue for some reason. Anyway, he posted a Cathedral picture today and a link to the model which is pretty cool, and free.

This picture is my first play. Typically underlit and just mucking around with the model.

How would you go about importing it into Bryce?

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I downloaded the 3ds version which is in RAR format, but PKZIP can unzip it and then in Bryce, File, Import Object and it will find the 3ds file and voila. If you download the texture RAR and unzip it to the same folder, then it will add the textures automatically.

Loving this model...

Very nice render!!!!

This model's really cool. Trying a better render, but here's one for now.

just photoshopped a little bit.

Very nice Ornlu. Great lighting.

I don't have a picture made in Bryce handy, so I'll offer a recent quickie from Cinema. >:-) [brag] And now you see what I have in my hometown. :-D [/brag] BTW, that Sponza Atrium from Dubrovnik is also great. BTW 2, if you want a quick look at what makes that cathedral really famous around here, check the "Sic transit..." photo in my gallery. I had a couple more, but the interest was so small I deleted them.

See, now I don't mean any offense at all. But the cinema render doesn't look much better than a bryce render... which makes me wonder why I'd upgrade and spend 20X what I spent on bryce.. when it doesn't look 20X better. =).

Ah, I saw the Sponza atrium on another site, but it didn't have a credit. It's what I based these two pictures on a while ago. It's a great model, but I couldn't find the download site, so made it in Bryce.

Hey, looking good, drawbridge. Ornlu, no offense taken, but it's a quickie, with a too bright ambient light. Just something I set up in about half an hour, together with applying and tweaking the textures on every piece of the cathedral and the furniture. Twelve materials. (BTW, there's a great thing with Cinema - when you change a material, every separate piece that uses the material gets the change. Hmm. I'm off to DAZ to put that on the wishlist.) OTOH, the sun flare was done in Cinema and the whole render takes 1 minute and 15 seconds for ca 1200x900, with soft shadows.

Besides the flare, that image reminds me a lot of bryce. Maybe it's just the very low contrast shadows. My question is mainly... how long would it take to do an image like the one I posted in my gallery within cinema 4d. Because that image took about 30 minutes to rig up then 1 hour to render...+5 minutes in photoshop. Even in the higher up apps, I don't think you can get a quick/realistic render unless you bake some radiosity lighting. In which case you'd have to spend a lot of time calculating that to begin with...

Message edited on: 09/03/2004 16:50

Cracking models!

This is an EXCELLENT model, thanks for the link...:)!!!

I just can't stop playing with this model. I see what you mean, Ornlu, about reluctance to post in the gallery. You had more justification because of the work you put into the lighting, but I've hardly done anything to this. Took about 40 minutes start to finish. I don't think I will post it there, but I will here. Plus, it doesn't really make sense. I mean why would a centaur be in a cathedral?

Why it wouldn't be? :-) Ornlu, I have to check about that, cause I'm a raw newbie with cinema and have no idea how to do some things with lights. that is, I know what I want, but it won't come out at all. But I think that it wouldn't be that long in rendering. And radiosity only comes with the Advanced Render module...

Lol, it still looks good to me. I have this general...dislike for art that is almost entirely made with others' models and claimed to be original. (some of that...unfortunate stuff in the hot 20 that everyone gets riled up about...) Therefore I felt hypocritical doing it myself. Feels like cheating.