I am trying to do my first serious bryce render in a long time and I was wondering if there is a way to get lots of foliage, trees, and bushes on a terrain real fast or some tips on ways to make placing them easier. Any help would be great. -ashgondai

ash, the way i have don it is like this. Open bryce, new screen same size your images is at. Then place one tree/bush/plant/flower in it, size it to what you want, then go to the file/duplicate or hold down the crtl key and just tap the D key for the amount you want.

Move them out into the open once you have them all out in place you remove the ground grid, hold the crtl + A key, group the trees and save them into you Create/user. Then after doing all that get rid of the ones you have left on the screen, open your wip you are doing and bring the trees you saved into it by going back into create/user click on them then click on the tick.

When you have them in your wip, place them in it where you want them then just hit crtl + D to make more copies of them.

I know this is long and winded post and there might be a quicker way of doing it or telling you how to do it but i'm learning bryce and thats how i found it best to do it so far :)

Message edited on: 10/08/2004 22:47

Your presets folders can get very bloated if you add too much to them - deleting the icon doesn't delete the object in the folder. I got a very good tip here on the forum about a week ago........When you're starting a new project like this, create a new Temporary Folder in your presets (or several, one for objects, one for materials etc.) and save what you want into that, or import freebies that you want to use just once. Then when you've finished your render you can delete the temporary folders if you want to.

PS most people use trees as bushes - just pull them downwards on the Y axis For trees and bushes (and anything else) it's handy to use the Randomise button. Select all the objects you want to reposition, then set the kind of randomisation required (1), then drag on the blue button circled in the image. You can tweak afterwards.

RDNA has bees. Sharen

another trick is to rotate copies by various degrees of each tree on a 'y' axis; this gets away from the 'obvious copy' syndrome..;)