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Subject: Brand new and completely lost!

CarysK opened this issue on Aug 31, 2005 · 23 posts
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CarysK ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 5:09 PM · edited Sun, 26 January 2025 at 11:23 AM

Well I got Bryce as a present from a friend who knows I love to play with graphics - great present! I'm used to PSP and have dabbled with other stuff but my question is - having opened Bryce and made a render (wow yes I did one with water , land and a mountain! lol ) how on earth do I save the image ? I can't find a 'file and save' button or anything like it ...... Help please?? I can't even find the help button! LOL

zollster ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:03 PM

bryce 5.5 hides its menu options. move mouse to top of screen select file->save image as..

MoonGoat ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:23 PM

Welcome to Bryce! A wonderful land of happiness and render times awaits you; keep fiddling, water land and mountains are a great start. Dig up some simple tuts and explore the features, browse the gallery and look at some of the Bryce wizards. The forum is your retreat, we'll always be here to help. Keep Brycing, MoonGoat

CarysK ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:35 PM

Thanks so much! So that's where they are :-) I'm off to make a new world now......

diolma ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:36 PM

Yup, move your mouse up to the top of the screen, the "normal" menus should be revealed.. Bryce hides it good bits, just so that newcomers have to enter these forums and ask questions (sorry, being flippant.. but it sems that way sometimes). Also, try just moving the mouse around the interface (especially along the RH side) - there's a lot there that doesn't normally show up. And there a lot of "easter-egg"-type short-cuts/extremely useful keyboard commands that are available (can't remember any links off hand, but someone will probably chime in).. Cheers, Diolma


RodsArt ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:44 PM · edited Wed, 31 August 2005 at 6:46 PM

Welcome aboard!
Like MoonGoat says, there will always be someone here to help.
Posting your Works In Progress(WIP) will draw tons of response.

Have Fun
ICM Oh, BTW. Here are the Keyboard Shortcuts and some Easter Eggs. Easter Eggs

Message edited on: 08/31/2005 18:46

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Mahray ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 8:04 PM

Attached Link: http://www.rendergods.com/

Visit the Renderosity Bryce Forum, search it, look at the FAQ through the Community Section, ask questions. We're friendly here, most of us don't bite too hard. Also, feel free to visit RenderGods, where you can talk to all sorts of people about Bryce, Wings, other modelling, 2D, and general stuff. Mahray

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Peggy_Walters ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 8:14 PM

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Welcome! Best help available is to get a copy of the Real World Bryce book by Susan Kitchens. It is a "must have"! You can pick up used copies on Amazon or e-bay fairly cheap. I also have a short-cut sheet on my site and a tutorial on how to organize all the cool freebies you will start collect.

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TheBryster ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 9:04 PM

Someone gave him Bryce as a PRESENT??????? What a bas**d!!!!!!!!!!! Look! Uninstall it now and save yourself. If you don't you'll lose your wife, your family, your home, your car and your job. You'll forget how to communicate in the 'real' world and start looking at everything to see how you can make it in Bryce. You'll be inexplicably attracted to shiny spheres and naviatwas'. You'll waste your money on digital cameras and spend half your life photographing those 'real' skies just so you can get 'realism' into your renders..... ...and when you're not Brycing you'll be yacking away to us morons here on the Rend.....then you'll want to upgrade your pc, your printer etc etc etc.... Don't end up like us. We're lost already...... ...on the other hand....welcome to the asylum ;)

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drawbridgep ( ) posted Wed, 31 August 2005 at 9:12 PM

Don't listen to the Welshman behind the curtain, pay no attention to him. Bryce is good. Embrace Bryce. Bryce is not evil. You will do anything Bryce wants. including sitting for hours on end without food, bathroom breaks, working, talking to people. Bryce is king, Bryce is president, Bryce is the one true God. A rendergod as it were. Trust in Bryce and your life will be complete. www.rendergods.com for realtime answers to Bryce questions you didn't even know you wanted to know the answer to.

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ddaydreams ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 1:25 AM

Yep that's how I got bryce. My wife got it for me as a gift back at version 3 when it was still metacreations product. Now I have 5.5 and the same wife, at least last time I checked, I'm pretty sure she still lives here. Just kidding kinda, If she was not into digatal art and photography like me "She understands" we mighta been in trouble. She is "bentchick" here at rosity Bryce can be addictive, Have fun. That reminds me I'd better get her some flowers;)

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sackrat ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 1:50 AM

Wife !? So that's who that woman who lives in my house is ? Mmmmmmmmm,...............Bryce.

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REALOldNick ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 6:40 AM

Bryce hides it good bits, just so that newcomers have to >enter these forums and ask questions (sorry, being >flippant.. but it sems that way sometimes). Not flippant at all. I really feel that in the interests of an uncluttered UI, the programme will drive away anyone who tries it. I have posted this in the DAZ forums, and been severely questioned!

bandolin ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 6:41 AM

Don't listen to the American Brit. The Welshman is right. Uninstall Bryce now, while you still can. Save yourself, run, run away!!!!


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UVDan ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 8:40 AM
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I see somebody has already recommended "Real World Bryce 4" so the only thing left for me to do is supply the link to Brycetech and your education will be complete.

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skiwillgee ( ) posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 10:36 PM

Agree with TheBryster,,,,,,,,,,,otherwise have a prepared notorized document with you at all times explaining to the men in white coats that it is perfectly normal to use expensive digital cameras to photograph such beautiful things as: tree bark, rusty cans, clouds, dried up grass, clouds, wind blown water, clouds, clouds, clouds. And did I mention staring at a little line creeping down a monitor screen even though the stupid computer said it would take 5 hours. Welcome to the most fulfilling piece of software on earth!!! Bryce rules

REALOldNick ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 12:19 AM

Thanks so much! So that's where they are :-) I'm off to >make a new world now...... Just don't forget the power of the plop render button....

REALOldNick ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 12:22 AM

All of these rollicking good very happy or sarcastic replies leave me with little that a very powerful programme could maybe be made more accessible, by changing the interface to halfway to what people are used to. I have not said I won't use it. I have not said it's not clever and good in many ways. I just feel that the interface looks nice and clean, but every step in learning it requires a half page of description just to get to the button you want.

omac2 ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 1:43 AM

"changing the interface" What !!, Bryce has the kindest, easiest and most user friendly UI out there. You should try 3dmax..lol, I sometimes go into 3dmax6 to make models or try to learn "basic" stuff but im left reading (or trying to) my 3dmax bible of 1100 pages. now THATS a hard UI to get to know. ;>

REALOldNick ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 3:22 AM

Read the title of this thread. Every time I or someone else says somethong everybody compares this programme to other 3d stuff. OK. Maybe they're (3d programmes) all weird. I have not tried to the others. As a new Bryce trier-out, I have used a heap of Windows programmes, including a 3d drafting package or two. Bryce looks easy until you try to do stuff. If you know where to look it's not too bad. But with no tooltips, limited menus and buttons, triangles and key combos scattered everywhere, it is not logical. I do see that the suggested book for Bryce is 1000 pages; not far off the 1100 mentioned....the Help is way insufficient. Help takes ten lines to tell me where a control is. This has to indicate problems. If it were a menu you can Manu/Edit/View/DoWhatever and it's all over. Or there may be a shortcut key. But it's a part of the menu. Next time, your choice. Or you customise toolbars and have what you want on the screen for the stuff you use most. I cannot see the harm in changing the interface to suit more Windows-used people. Don't want menus? *Hide the menus. Don't want buttons? *Have Toolbars, that are customisable, dockable etc. But at any rate, have the same actions throughout the programme, or allow User choice. I do not expect to know all of the capabilities of this programme in a week. But I do feel that if after two weeks I am still "discovering" that I needed a key combination (no menu, or button) to some simple act, that I could only find by buying a 1000 page book or scanning many articles, then the interface can be improved. As a very least for instance: Why is there no "Zoom to Window" button"? We have Pan, Zoom In and Zoom out. But no Zoom to Window. Almost universal, but not here. Why, when I m ove across the buttons, do I not see Tooltips, should I require them? What possible harm can that do? Remember they are going to be fighto9ng for an increased market here, from....new users, used to Windows.

skiwillgee ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 6:46 AM

@ RealOldNick Not everything in the world must follow in the "world according to Bill Gates and microsoft" Please don't be offended. Maybe Bryce6 will address some of your issues. In the mean time render,render,render and help those along the way who want to learn.

REALOldNick ( ) posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 7:57 AM

OK.

Gog ( ) posted Mon, 05 September 2005 at 7:29 AM

@OMAC, but Max is like Bryce, once you've sussed the GUI it'll keep drawing you back!

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