Hiya All....
      I just want to say how nice and cool it is to once again be in an active, alive forum...doing Free Stuff is fine and I get to read all the tutes I approve but my native app Imagine3D has been dead in the water so long I've basically had no community here to chat and play around with other than the Mod and Coord forums...not that they're boring, but this is about art here, not administration, and it's giving me new wings....thanx all.. ...

So how about trying out a new Bryce render/Image?

Doesn't have to be a 'challenge' just something for fun.

Yeah, give it a spin. Bryce 5 has a lot of power under the hood, artwork making wise and most people around here are quite helpfull.

You're Welcome! ;-)

I can't speak for anyone else but I'm far from fabulous. Perhaps fantastic, incredable and/or lazy ... thanks though. As much as I miss Agent Smith I for one am glad you're here too.   

I'm glad to see you here too Bobby. Used to read a lot of your posts in the Terragen Forum. Heck, I spent my first 2+ years there until the siren song of Bryce seduced me away.

OK maybe it was a mutual seduction since I always wanted to use Bryce. Now if I can only integrate Bryce with Terragen. ;)

Anyway I'm a noob here myself, but the Brycers are a friendly folk, (meaning this fellow who calls himself The Bryster hasn't threatened me with the comfy chair), so I think you'll feel right at home in this part of town.

Thanks to you for injecting a much needed breath of fresh air into the Bryce forum.

Hehehe.... I just loved reading all of the friendly banter between the long time folks of the forum. Have a question, tho. What's up with the comfy chair? And why is everybody afraid of it?

By way of introduction, I am new to these parts. A noobie to this forum but not to Bryce. What is baptism by fire is a noobie supposed to undergo here?

TS

*"What is baptism by fire is a noobie supposed to undergo here?"- * The universal requirement, for those new to the Bryce Forum is to render and post a SOW (Sphere Over Water) picture, or some variation thereof. It's de rigueur!

*Have a question, tho. What's up with the comfy chair? And why is everybody afraid of it? 

*Be afraid! Be very Afraid! Using anything other than the Blessed App (or those approved by the Cardinals) and you can expect a visit from the Spanish Inquisition AND the Comfy Chair! 

Cardinal Bryster

With all due respect to His Eminence, Cardinal TheBryster, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Ouch! After reading and then cringing at "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," I just realized I haven't yet posted a SOW in this here forum. Should that be worthy of yet another sticky?

eh...sure why not .. er, what's a SOW ?

thunderstone:
You'll have to forgive Bryster he's a pretty good guy but he tends to overestimate things by 6 Monte Pythons and sometimes Two Benny Hills if he dips into the sacramentals, you understand.
Myself I'm ok but I underestimate things by three Groucho Marks and two Richard Dean Andersons if I get a couple quarts of pale in me.

I wouldn't buy furnature from either of us.

(Now if I could only get my duck to get down off that horse)

... but seriously folks:
And of course 'nobody EXPECTS the Spanish Inquisition'  and  'the comfy chair' are Monte Python - Thanks to Fran on the edge I now know you can look at these rather ANCIENT skits through the courtesy of U-Tube what you can google if you've a mind to. 

disclaimer:
Of course I make no claims to copyright issues; I'll have to leave it to you to read any relevent advisories in that regard when you get to the tube before viewing anything

Quote - *"What is baptism by fire is a noobie supposed to undergo here?"- * The universal requirement, for those new to the Bryce Forum is to render and post a SOW (Sphere Over Water) picture, or some variation thereof. It's de rigueur!

Where??? Here in this forum? Or in the Gallery??? :m_scared:

O. K. here's the scivy - first you go without eating for seven days. then and only then take a laptop up to the highest mountain you can find (you will need to bring lots of extra battery packs or a very  long extension chord) and render a sphere over water. there are details I cannot relate to you at this point as I have been drinking and the spirits consider it disrepectful to talk of such things in an altered state. 
but this is called 'the vision quest'.

coming off the mountain you ponder the visions you had up on the mountain while looking at the render of the sphere you created in Bryce over water while there for another seven days - you still may not eat but you can drink as much Guiness as you want during this time - and no you can't drink and drive. As you may know other tribes have other rituals such as the Poser Tribe's NVIATWAS. I won't go into details as even mentioning what the initals NVIATWAS stand for as they are distainful to us and cause us much pain even to think aboot. 
this is called 'interpreting the vision quest'.

now you are ready to tell others of your vision: 
You make renders of your inmterpretation of your quest linking to them from the forum here and asking people what they think of your render. When everyone agrees that they are tired of giving you endless pointers then you will be a warrior in the Bryce tribe and if you haven't died of starvation can start eating again.
this part is called 'telling others of your vision'.

   or...

you could just start posting your renders(link to them when you can.). The SOW is sort of an inside joke (don't tell anyone though.) 

cheers,
-TJ

Quote - O. K. here's the scivy - first you go without eating for seven days. then and only then take a laptop up to the highest mountain you can find (you will need to bring lots of extra battery packs or a very  long extension chord) and render a sphere over water. there are details I cannot relate to you at this point as I have been drinking and the spirits consider it disrepectful to talk of such things in an altered state. 
but this is called 'the vision quest'.

coming off the mountain you ponder the visions you had up on the mountain while looking at the render of the sphere you created in Bryce over water while there for another seven days - you still may not eat but you can drink as much Guiness as you want during this time - and no you can't drink and drive. As you may know other tribes have other rituals such as the Poser Tribe's NVIATWAS. I won't go into details as even mentioning what the initals NVIATWAS stand for as they are distainful to us and cause us much pain even to think aboot. 
this is called 'interpreting the vision quest'.

now you are ready to tell others of your vision: 
You make renders of your inmterpretation of your quest linking to them from the forum here and asking people what they think of your render. When everyone agrees that they are tired of giving you endless pointers then you will be a warrior in the Bryce tribe and if you haven't died of starvation can start eating again.
this part is called 'telling others of your vision'.

   or...

you could just start posting your renders(link to them when you can.). The SOW is sort of an inside joke (don't tell anyone though.) 

cheers,
-TJ

:m_laugh: :m_laugh:   Oooookkkkkkaaayyyyy.... Let me get my favorite beverage mix and retire to the throne room... I do better vision quest when I sit on my throne, reading the comic panel of my favorite daily newspaper...  :m_wink:   I'll post you a link to my gallery when I have more posted. Right now I just uploaded a render of Robby Red, the red robot, a cousin of Robby the robot from Forbidden Planet.  More renders to be posted soon.

TS

ROFL @ bikermouse!

My apologies to the Lakota Nation and my friends in the Native American Church - all in fun.

Quote - My apologies to the Lakota Nation and my friends in the Native American Church - all in fun.

I just knew that you were going to post this... Not surprised at all... Thanks for honoring them. :m_wink: Don't worry. I'll post the link to my gallery soon...

Attached Link: SOW

Danamo: My point exactly!  :lol:

Having done one render of the proverbial SOW on another site, guess I will have to produce or create another one for this gallery... Wondering if it's worth the trip to the mountain... Think you can lend me the plane fare to go to the Bahamas, so I can sit on the warm pink sand and work up this SOW render? :m_wink:

oooh tg2 user! u wouldnt be able to tell me how to mask or blend displacements based on the normal of the underlying terrain would you??

D'oh...nope ..I tend to work with image maps..e mail me at  bstar@mts.net and I'll send you the tgd for my current render in which I use image maps to do everything almost.. ...

Nice touch, bobby ! !

With all due respect to His Eminence, Cardinal TheBryster, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Of course not Danamo! Sheesh!

It would be the Cydonian Inquisition! :scared:

Much more fun...er....serious!

Cylonian inquisition ? Hey I only got to the "Crossroads"  episode of Battlestar Galactica on 
sci-fi pulse but they pulled even that . . . I guess they want you to buy the Razor DVD.... 

er ... whats that?? 
Cydonian Inquisition?? nevermind.  

er ... whats that?? 
Cydonian Inquisition?? nevermind. 

Its when The Cardinal brings all of us heretics to account on Cydonia, Mars. After all the Cardinal will not wish to wear himself with home visitiations to incur his Riteous Wrath! (and the dreaded Comfy Chairs), I'm booking my flight right now so dive for cover Bryster....or put the kettle on!

Oh! A genuwine Heretic is going to visit me?  I'll certainly put the kettle on.....just so I can scold someone's tootsies. mmmmmmmmuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhaaaaaa! ;-)

Remember Brycie dear, my tootsies have already been kept warm in fire and brimstone! I'll have coffee, white and 6 spoons of sugar please!

scold...hmmm...hardly a punishment scolding...I do believe scalding would do a bit better, .heh heh heh...Bishop Bob...th names the same front and back...you might say it's a front and back werd word.. ...

Hey! So I can't spell. So sack me.:tongue1:

couldn't hep m'sef.. ... :m_laugh:

Hey Bryster if you get the sack from Bryce you can come to Heretics R Us....We will employ you as a tea lady...er....person...:woot:

Hey Bryster if you get the sack from Bryce you can come to Heretics R Us....We will employ you as a tea lady...er....person...

Right about when Hell freezes over.:b_cool:

Oh! is that snow I see??? Brrrrrr.:b_tonguewink:

Certainly is here in the Frozen North..I've shovelled my back to the chiropractor and back and my back still ain't back*,heh heh heh.. ...*

I know what you mean.

Ahh...but you all got the heavy wet snow...twas a dry snow here...LOL...how Canajian eh.. ...

Me, I'm in Wales and boy is it hot here!

Fran: What are u doing in my earthly abode?

(translates as; what part of Wales are u in?)

Newport.

Looks down... Gee, I wondered why the ground was red.  Oh heck, where's my helmet, I can't breathe, I can't!!!... hey, I can breathe, Oh wow, you can breathe on Mars!

Lol.

Fran: You gotta learn to read!   I said 'Earthly abode'.....as in This is where I stay when I'm on Earth. 
(Jeez - some people just can't hold a concept together.;-))

Oh and Newport sucks. And you can't breathe on my home planet.....but I'm working on it. and Aberysytwyth's much better than Newport. :glare:

And Tondu is better than most and Llantwit is the best of all.

See I knew I could breathe here.  (I wondered how I'd suddenly arrived on a different planet, no wonder I didn't need that helmet)

I know Newport sucks.  I've been here since the middle of September but my release on good behaviour date is coming up soon... Next Friday in fact! Weeeheeee!

Hey Fran, can you do a bit of undercover work while you are there and see if you can swipe the Cardinals' list of heretics....we will make it worth your while.....promise! :sneaky:

Oh don't bother!
I'll be making a list
and checking it twice
you're gonna find out
who's been naughty or nice!

Comfy Chairs are coming to town!!
:b_funny:

ROFLMAO!!!  :lol:

Heh heh heh, gawd but I need punishment after yesterday. Sorry I didn't check here yesterday but got called in to do extra work on a film called High Life. Was playing a junkie in a NarcAnon meeting, watch for it in about a year ...seems to take 'bout that long to hit the screen....LOL.. ...

BobbyStahr in Hollyweird North...really North

Aberysytwyth, Tondu, Llantwit? Such exotic names, and barely speakable by human tongues! Are those located near Cydonia? ;-)

No, they're on a little planet in the outer reaches, called Backobeyond.

Lol