FilmMakerShawn opened this issue on Jan 13, 2006 ยท 23 posts
Swade posted Fri, 13 January 2006 at 8:04 PM
Attached Link: http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/BryceTuts/BryceTutSet.html
Welcome to the Bryce Forum....At the url above.... you will find 6 excellent tutorial sets developed especially for the Bryce beginner. Don't let it sound deceiving. 6 tutorial sets. Each set has many things to learn.
Set 1... The Bryce Interface
Starting the program, and setting up the screen size
Wireframe vs Rendering
3D Space; X,Y and Z axis
Bryce Views and Simple Camera Manipulation - The Control Palette
Making Objects Appear - The Create Palette
What You See - The Display Palette
Picking Objects to Manipulate - The Selection Palette
Manipulating Objects - The Edit Palette
Convenience Objects - Using Presets
Simple Rendering
Set 2 Something To Render( A childs pulltoy)
Seeing the Primitives in Complex Objects
Moving, Resizing and Combining Objects
Naming Objects to Prevent Confusion Later
Aligning Objects
Locking and Unlocking Objects
Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
Duplicating Objects and Groups
Boolean Operations
Using the Attributes Dialog
Using the Material Editor to make a Simple Material
Importing Objects from Other 3D Programs
Smoothing Imported Objects
Set 3 Somewhere To Put It
Using the Terrain Editor to customize the Terrain
Generating Elevations
Using the Terrain Canvas for complete control
More of the Material Editor
Changing the colors of Preset Materials
Adding your own Presets
Using Textures in the Material Editor
Using the Tree Lab to customize Trees
Metaballs, and How to Use Them
Making Symmetrical Lattices
Making Rocks
Set 4 Bryce Weather
Multi-Replication
Color Families
The Sky & Fog Palette
The Sky-Lab
Placing the Sun and Moon
Star Fields
Clouds, Fog and Haze
Specifing Sky Color
Bryce Rain (two ways)
Using the VCR Controls
Using Picture Objects
Making things Glow
Set 5 Lighting
Ambient Glow and True Ambience
The Light Lab
Volume Lights
Gradients on Lights
Gels on Lights
Light Falloff
Types of Lights available (Radial, Spot, Square Spot, Parallel (Cylinder and Square)
Half Angle of Spotlights
Indoor lighting - making candles glow, spotlights indoors
Importing Objects for Presets
Sunlight indoors
Fill lights
Using materials to enhance lighting
Polygon free outdoor scenes through windows
Light streaming through windows
Set 6 Building A Scene
Flipping objects on Axis
Modifying materials in the Deep Texture Editor
Explaining Alpha channels
Modifying grouped objects without ungrouping them
Centering objects for ease of modeling
Multi-replicating objects
Skewing objects
Blended Materials (AB blending and ABC blending)
Using Light Effects
Volume Textures
Shading Modes for Materials
Interaction of Sunlight and Light Effects
Faking shadows with Ambience Maps
Transparency in Bryce; Ray Depth and Total Internal Reflections
Rendering Options - Optics
Using objects as Volume Lights to save rendering time
Depth of Field
Render masks (Object, Distance and Altitude)
All Good Stuff in an easy concise layout/format. Logical steps in the learning process. If you are new to Bryce I highly suggest you check out this set of tutorials along with the other links provided above.
Have fun learning. 8)
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