I realy appriciate the help questing nr 1. How do u remove the shadows that are being casted in the water ?. I have selected the items and removed " dont cast shadow" and same with the water " dont recieve shadow" but its still there. how do I remove the shadows on objects ?. 2. How do I add stars to the sky ?. when I press that sun icon and get to the place where it says add moon/sun/star/meteor effects, nothing happends doesnt mather how many stars/ comests I set it 2. cant think of any more questions woud be nice if someone helped me with these 2.

Shadows on the water? well, that happens in real life. The only thing I can think of is to set your light source (sun or otherwise) so it doesn't shine down on the water
Stars in the Sky?- go to the sky selections (that little white cloud, in Skies and Fogs (I think, I'm doing this from memory, I'm at work), and look at the thumbs. Go down and (I think on the left side), you'll see a black square, that will show up as 'starfield'. Select this
tip- the Bryce stars defaults are..uh..well, could be better. What you can do is pull up the controls, and turn down the intensity, and turn up the number (I usually go for about 5-6,000 stars). Looks a lot better that way. Play with it until you see what you like. Have fun. People who actually have Bryce at their fingertips at the moment (which I don't..;) will probably have some screen shots. If not, I'll do some when I get home tonight..

I tried what u said but I still dont get any stars. I raised the amount to 10 000 and the intensity to 20 tried everything there but I still cant get any stars on my pic.

what am I doing wrong ? Edit: quick question how do I save objects ?

Message edited on: 02/01/2006 19:51

advice..don't try using bryce for stars..post work that in using photoshop..or use a 2d background. shadow? have you tried selecting the material you don't want to recieve a shadow... then go to materials lab.. there is a drop down arrow at the top.. and deselecting 'recieve shadows'? as for saving objects..click on the object.. then go to create.. at the bottom u'll see installed and a drop down arrow.. drop it down..select user.. click 'add'..a pop up window comes in..fill in the details..and click the arrow.

as for the shadow part I have tried that 100 times it doesnt work. but thanks for the help with saving objects. and about the stars I cant use any other programs then bryce :P, so I realy want to learn to add stars with bryce.

Message edited on: 02/01/2006 20:19

that work?..;)
Now the objects question. There's 2 kinds of objects in Bryce; primitives, or Booleans. You can save Bryce primitives (the spheres, cones, etc) in Bryce, though I haven't really done that (I have reasons..don't fret, though..;) Important note- you can't export Bryce primitives out of Bryce. There is an .obp format that you can import and export, but only to Bryce.
The other kind of objects are imported objects; files created in another program like Wings, Blender, 3ds Max, Lightwave, yada yada..;) They're saved in a format that Bryce can understand, such as .obj (object format), .3ds (3ds max, at least the older versions), .dxf (I think this is autocad), etc. Bryce can understand several different formats, so you can import and export them with File, Import Object, and point it to where you have an object stored. Lessee..;)
Here's a robot, created in Wings 3d (free modeling program..but one thing at a time..;)

Message edited on: 02/01/2006 20:30

A couple of things that might help: If you just clicked the sun icon to change it to night, it won't work. Stars are only visible if you are much later at night (move the moon nearer the center). Also check to make sure you have no clouds. It's the middle tab in the skylab, you can just uncheck "Stratus" and there you go.

hehe yup it worked :D thx alot. think what I did wrong was I didnt have a dark enough backround from the start. btw how do I get the stars to get bigger ? now it looks like small grey dots that havnt been renderd.

its been a great help thx alot :D. I just checked out ur gallery how the hell do u make those girls ?

packled got some girlfriends to lie on a xerox machine and then retransformed them into 3d figures like those you saw.. ;-P ;-P

so thats why they all have clothes on them ? :P

unfortuntely... yes..

great robot pakled, small cups have big ears my granny used to say. lol

I'd rather see that robot's girlfriend. I think she's made of HeavyMetal too.

Bandolin got it..;) It's what John Candy woulda looked like if he was a robot, or Den, or something..;)
Most of the 'wimmin' in the gallery are done in Poser (or Daz Studio, I'm branchin' out..;) They're mostly from Daz 3d.com. If you get Daz Studio (free from Daz), you can pose them, then export them into Bryce..try it once you have your sea legs about you..;)
As for getting the stars bigger?..;) don't touch the intensity, leave them at the default setting..but to be honest, they look a bit 'fake' to me..but whatever floats yer boat..;) have fun
@ Bandolin- I think there's enough Morphs, hair, clothing, etc., to make her, but the missus would 'dope slap' me if she caught me doing it..;)

@ pakled - its why my computer is in the basement. My wife hates coming down here.

sigh..that's one of the drawbacks to living in a trailer..you're lucky..;)