This may be nothing new to anyone but... I never tried using a lightdome before because I wasn't patient enough to go through the exercise of setting one up. I came up with a way to leverage Wings to make the setup completely painless...at least for me it was. The 3 experiments posting below shows a render in which I used the lightdome so created and it came out looking fairly photo-realistic so...I'll try using one more often. Anyway...the beauty of using Wings to create the light rig is that you can select the number of slices and sections on the original sphere which gives you control of how many lights will be in the final dome. Hope this helps.

..since Wings is free and here is just used as a pre-Bryce tool...I thought it was OK. :)

A novel approach. I've never used a light rig. I'll have to try it out, now. Thanks! :^)

hehe, this technique is new to me (as is bryce :P) thnx for sharing! i will certainly try it :o) CZ

Interesting idea there... One might have to try this with a buckyball or maybe a cube based sphere (smooth cube, inflate vertices 100%), because default sphere vertices become more dense near the poles.

Sheesh - great idea, thanks for sharing it :^))

yes great idea for lazy ppl like me lol

hey i never knew you could convert selections like that... awesome. and the wings idea is pretty awesome as well :)

Ooh I'll try this one. It seems I've been fiddling in wings a lot lately so I'm eager to try anything new.

Dare I say brilliant!?

Wow, that was so easy!!! And so easy to tweak individual lights once it's in Bryce :o)

Um... just tried this and, it doesn't work for me, I must be missing a step somewhere.

It works okay right up to the moment I try to convert the cubes into lights in Bryce - all that happens is the whole dome of lights converts into one single light, not a dome of separate lights.

Help?

Unfortunately this doesn't work on thelater versions of Wings.
At least not as easily.
Now you have to assign a different material name to each of the wings "cubes"...then it works as planned in Bryce.

Which is the version of Wings that it does work in? Without having to assign different materials to each object?