Hello Friends, You all are doing an awesome job and it is visible in the Gallary. I am more into photography and have little time for Bryce hence my knowledge is also limited in that field.... but not my interest. I soon plan to come up with a Texture package that can be used in Bryce 5. Lets hope soon. Meanwhile, I want to learn a little about the sky presets. What is .bsk files??... I have some brilliant sky images...... how can I convert them to bsk files so that they can be used as presents. Anybody , anyclue?? Even if you have a link please do share. I would be grateful to you all. Love ya all!! SNAKEY

*What is .bsk files??... * This is the file extension for Bryce skies. It used to be something like .shd way back in the day. We use the SKY LAB to alter sky.bsk files to suit our images, but as for creating .bsk files outside of Bryce I think not. If we want to import a sky image from a photograph of a real sky we turn off the sky lab and use a 2d object with a .jpg applied. (At least I think that's how we do it...:unsure:) You could try posting a couple of your images here and let's us see what you have in mind.

Yeh, as Bryster says, but good sky photos are always welcome!

Bryce skies work like a video camera and monitor. Instead of the video camera inputting a signal you make the signal up in the Skylab using a lot of fancy math. If you had a system of stereo cameras separated by 21 miles you could develop a 3D interpolation of the hues and persistence of the clouds in the sky. Using a team of programmers with a large scale teraflop climate simulation computer and complex Fourier transforms you could develop a mathematical model that closely duplicates the picture you took. You could plug these equations back into the Skylab and reproduce the general look of the sky. Unfortunately Bryce Skylab can only take two algorithms for cirrus and cumulus clouds. It cant handle more than that or occasions where part of the sky is clear and part cloudy like when fronts move in. In long, there is no way without the resources of NASA to bring a photo image into the Bryce Skylab. People like Orbital build complex skies in Bryce using a combination of the Skylab and sky presets on Bryce primitives. These skies could be sold as Bryce scenes. They rely more on art than mechanical duplication to create. Lots of people are happy to stick a photo image of a sky like a background billboard into their renders. Other people like to layer them in Photoshop. Id stick with what I have and see who wants it.

Now that's what I call skies! :b_smile: