Ok, I'm working on an image in bryce that is about 160megs right now...it was fine, but now when I try to load it, bryce errors and shuts down...it says bryce.exe. So I have to start over again...So now I tried to merge that file into a new document and it worked...though I have to tweak it. Is there something I can do to prevent this from happening in the future? Is the file corrupted? Not enough HD space? I have 256 ram, 400 PII...I have about 1 gig space left on the drive with bryce, but bryce is using windows temp for caching, can I switch this to a larger drive? Any help is much appreciated. Bryan

I was just having this same problem.What you need is more ram, I just got my 500P3 up to 512 and although I havent got into bryce hard since then just fooled around with a bunch of high rez trees but what a difference. It was worth it. a bigger processor will help render faster too. And you might want to try something like FreeMemPro or FreeMem standard (which is free) Hope this helps you out a bit anyways N69

Is there any way to get bryce set up its temp/cache files on another drive? Bryan

you can set your swap drive to another drive. Also, you can do one of two things, either let windoze control the size or manually set the size and use something like norton to optimize it in a contiguous block. I often had to set my swapdrive to a different HD and make it real large and optimize it. Manual settings on the swapdrive require a reboot. "You have moved your mouse, please reboot for windoze changes to take effect"

Make sure you put the swap file on a defragged drive. If you have multiple physical hard drives, put the swap file on the fastest.

Ok...I moved my swap file to another drive and that helps, however, bryce still uses windowstemp for its spooling, which grows very large...is there config file that determines where bryce places its temp spool files? If I could correct this, I would be in the clear. Otherwise, I have to move my main drive to another with more space. Thanks for the swap file info though...and i'll probably buy another 128 ram chip as well today. Bryan

This doesn't address your hardware problems, but.... As a "quick" workaround you could also split the Bryce model in half (make 2X 80MB files) at an appropriate point, and do mask renders so you can stick 'em together in Photoshop(or whatever image edit program you use)... Know what I mean? BigRobot

One last question...which is better? Replicate or duplicate?

If you can't find Bryce's swap file setting in an ini file, it might be in the registry. Try doing a search for "Bryce".

replicate and duplicate do slightly different things: Duplicate makes a copy of the object and sticks it in exactly the same place as the source. Replicate first duplicates the object, THEN performs the last transformation that you did to the object (move, resize, rotate). Use replicate (and its big brother, multi-replicate) when you want to position/resize/rotate a series of identical objects in identical ways. Such as making the steps of a spiral staircase. Create, rotate, replicate, replicate, replicate.