Can someone explain to me Bryce's Render engine. What do the numbers mean? and what do I need to do to get high quality images?

I'm afraid you're going to need to be more specific. What numbers? What specifically about the render engine? Are you talking about output file size? If so, that is set up under the "File/Document Settings..." menu item. The numbers there are the viewing area size in pixels, i.e. 800x600 pixels. You can then render the final output at 4:1, 2:1, 1:1, 0.25:1, etc. meaning 4 times larger, or 25% the size, etc. This would translate to 3200x2400, 1600x1200, 800x600, and 200x150 pixels, respectively. Pixels are just pixels: on screen, there are typically between 72 and 90 pixels per inch, depending on your monitor. If you're eventuallly going to print your Bryce images, it depends on your printer -- an ink jet printer (for example) will produce its best quality output if you print at about 150 pixels per inch... NOT the 1440 resolution that some printers claim, which is for 4-color printing, not continuous-tone printing. So if you want your image to be 5 inches wide, printed on an inkjet printer, it should be about 650 pixels in the horizontal dimension. I apologize if this doesn't answer your question: if not, please be more specific and we'll be happy to help. --flick

Or, do you mean the time laps numbers? They give an estimated time till that one sweep is completed, and Im not sure if it's accurate. And Im not sure what the bottom number is either, it doesnt seem to make any sense. For high quality images, DO NOT save as jpg in bryce, they are the worst jpgs ever known to man. render them as .bmp's and convert using a photo editor or something like photoshop. If you are refering to the resolution numbers, I just use the ones at the top of the window which determine final render size in pixels (1024x768 etc)You can also change the dpi in bryce, for higher quality, then shrink the pic in photoshop when converting to jpg.

For the time lapse numbers, the top number is the amount of time which has elapsed, and the bottom is the estimated remaining time to finish the complete render (without antialiasing). The top one only updates every time a sweep is completed, so it's not much help.

Thanks, i was just guessing, hehe, been using bryce 2 years and never did figure that out.