So i've textured and planned out my scene of an advancing front line of Troop carriers. However PC power dictates i will need to change my usual procedure of all 'in camera' images (most of my work is one pass in the Bryce render). So this image is of a render for the first layer, i have used blank untextured models to indicate where i will place the carrier, each with minor mods, in subsequent renders. Also it gives me a bit longer to plan the background (ruins i think) - then i shall render at biggest size (4000X2000) each layer, and then render a mask (thanks to Brycetech for giving me this pointer a while back) before repositioning and moving into the image. Also gives an opportunity to tweak lighting if required. aLSO means i may see a finished image before christmas. oops what a lot of words hope not too boring.

Sounds like you know exactly what you need to do.... However, if Bryce 5.5 gets released soon you may be able to overcome the long render time..... or at least shorten it some. None-the-less... Looks like a nice start. Will watch for updated WIPs...

"When killers attack!!!!!" Tonight on Fox. Where are the hordes of droids?

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do you realise how many polygons an army of droids is gonna be...AAARrrggh, there pops the motherboard

press 'render', go to bed at night, come back after work, check. Worked for me, but so far my longest render is 19 hours..;) It looks like it would be worth the wait..

You could configure layers with droids staggered in individual backdrop renders. smoosh it all together. there ya are... Check out some of rochrs' Wip threads. Here's a small clue to one of mine. "Fables". This is nowhere near as complex as what your doing. Your work is amazing RJ, keep'm coming. ICM

Hello everyone, A friend of mine recommended this place and mentioned about the tricks done in bryce. SO is there a tutorial somewhere explaining the tricks mentioned in this post? I've been trying to do an Underwater Dolphin Scene, on an AMD Athalon XP 2500+ Barton running at 2.2 GHZ with 512MB of Dual Ram and it took 4 Days to render. I'm basically following the tutorial found on DAZ3D Tutorial. I got frustrated and being an I.T. Guy with lots of spare parts I build 2 x PIII 800MHZ Systems + 1 x PII 400MHZ System. With Bryce Lightning and all 4 systems the same image took 1 Day 5 Hours 22 Minutes to render.

Analog-X: Are you familiar with PhotoShop?

Analog, scen optimization in Bryce is tediuos, but not impossible. What kinds of lights are you using? Lights with "ranged" falloff render the fastest. And of course, lights that don't cast shadows render even faster. Are you using Volumetric World? Don't, it's obnoxious and slow and there are plenty of volumetric workarounds you can use that will not only look BETTER, but will give you some control over their render speeds... Get back to us, start a new thread and we'll help you take that scene apart...

Also you might want to tweek your resolution setting as far as rendering. if your working on the dolphin tut I think you are its the same one I did and with my little athlon 1800 running 1.53 GHz it only took about 5 hrs I would post the result but after I up dated my ram and bryce blue screened my sys several times I lost all my WIPs and finished pieces.
(note: again great thanx to ICM for helping me with that)

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