I want to change the bryce default file - cos I'm fed up with all that fog and haze and having to switch it off all the time - but in a search all I found was a link to an old forum thread - back before bondware came along so I get 404'd on it.

Help?

Easy!
Load up Bryce.
Change your cloud/sun/sky to what you want.
Check your render settings to what you want.
Change your camara view etc
Lose the default ground plane setting to something like Bryce default grey...(This will save render time)
go to  FILE, SAVE AS,
call it   DEFAULT.BR6 or BR5. 
But make sure this file is in your root Bryce folder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Close Bryce.
Load Bryce and you new default setting should be ready for you.

I'm not sure but there might already be a file called DEFAULT.BR?. If so, just overwrite it.

But always make a backup of any file you change incase something goes bad and you want to go back!

What is the root Bryce folder?

P.S. Bryster, thanks for the info.

I was going to use the grey on the floor, but only sometimes - I use that more for modelling, or to look at complex stuff quickly, but mostly I want some sort of sky as I want to see how things reflect - in some stuff.  It's just that I almost never need fog or haze - and continually turning it off is beginning to drive me nuts!

I've searched till I'm blue in the face but I can't find any "default.br6" file anywhere at all - I'd expected it to be somewhere in Program Files/Daz/Bryce - but it's not.  (nor "default.br5" nor anything else like it.)

So I can't use its current location to find out where the root Bryce folder is...help???

Fran: Root Folder = 
c:program filesdazbryce where c: is the location of your PROGRAM FILES.

This is the folder that holds all your bryce program stuff. It contains other folders like your presets and data folders.

If you haven't got a default.br6 saving as DEFAULT.BR6 to the above folder will do the trick.

I suggest you use Bryce  TERRERCOTA for your models and the grey for the ground plane. I think you'll find it more convienent.

Sorry for not explianing myself better.

unless you got the old Corel version, where it's c:program filescorelbryce

Brilliant, brilliant!!  It works.

Thank gawd for that.

Not sure about using terracotta for the models though, that'd make it a bit hard to test materials. Lol!

Thanks Bryster and pakled. I'm sorted now.

I tweak that mat though; I kill all Ambience, take Diffusion to 100, add a little Specularity (value=33) to it and change the Specular Halo to 249.

This makes inner-farther parts darker and raised-closer parts lighter, making the mesh more visually defined. Helps me "see" everything better.

Oh I see, you mean just for positioning?  I usually want to test mats first, then position - probably the wrong way round, eh?

Actually, now that I think about it, before my laptop got nicked, I had a nice grey all sorted out for positioning models in a scene, it was a dullish blue-ish grey - rather like 3ds max models sometimes look... I think.

It made things look like unpainted airfix models and contrasted just enough with the grey ground.

Hmmm... I must see if I can re-create that again, it was useful.