Useful utility #1

Have you ever had a picture viewer which was displaying an object, or scenery you were using for reference, and have to flip between Bryce and the viewer on numerous occasions?

Well I do this quite a lot, and I can tell you it's annoying.

Not any more..... I found this nifty little utility that displays your scene or an image of an object that you are reproducing.

You can get it here: http://www.shareaec.com/v/16816/software-and-tools/Transparent-Image-Viewer

Know of a useful utility one can use with Bryce? Add it here: :-)

Here's a 'utility', just for TheBryster :lol:
Wings3D

Quote - Useful utility #1

I found this nifty little utility that displays your scene or an image of an object that you are reproducing.

You can get it here: http://www.shareaec.com/v/16816/software-and-tools/Transparent-Image-Viewer

Thanks for the tip... i will check it out...

TS

Attached Link: DAZ to Bryce diffuse texture script

Attached Link: Terrain City

Zenith Light Rig by Madmax
Nice soft shadows from a custom light array. Works in bryce 4 5 and 6
Got a copy stashed away.
http://www.geocities.com/electroglyph2002/freestuff/zenith.zip

Windome
http://www.geocities.com/electroglyph2002/freestuff/windome48.zip
This little utility created by Richard J. Bono does only one thing. It creates all kinds of geodesic domes. Just a section or an entire sphere. Exports DXF files.

Attached Link: Spiralizer

Bantam Grass
http://evilsnail.com/bantam.html
Paul is now hosting Kang's three great freeware programs.

Bantam Grass - draws blades of grass. Control shape, size, orientation, randomization, bending, number, etc. Generates a single mesh object for each run.

Bantam Twig - makes twigs. control sides bending branching etc.

Bantam Scatter - Takes one object and randomly scatters it over an area. Control scale rotation.

Grass and scatter have the extra advantage of grayscale map inputs. Control the likelyhood an object will be created by using a grayscale square image. Paint a black path down the center and grass won't be generated there. Scatter trees thickest on white spots, less on darker spaces. Use the same terrain heightmap you built your land with and grow grass or scatter trees on the same slope.

Dvlenk6: I just read this thread. I'm amazed I missed what you said. Thanks but W3d is a big no-no.......and you just went to the top of my list.

dhama.........Great find!
Can't tell you how useful this is going to be!

Quote - Dvlenk6: I just read this thread...and you just went to the top of my list.

:b_funny:

"Context Free"

http://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/

This is basically an abstract image generator, but its free and can (2D) render out an image to any size you want.

It's code driven, and if you add in the code...

background{sat 121 b 1 alpha -1}

...as your first line, it will give your image a transparent background, which is then perfect for using on a 2D face in Bryce.

Check out the gallery link above to see all the crazy shapes you can make. There are hundreds of various codes for download.

AS

It is this Context code;
http://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=4

Then I placed that on a Symmetrical Lattice (inverted the b&w), then replicated the Lattice 3-4 times and rotated each to give it more visual depth.

AS

Always liked that one!

Luminous
Volumetric raytracer. Can make galaxy graphics, animated explosions, and so on.
It was designed for video game graphic work by George, to make help make graphics for the games that he writes.

On the higher end of side-kick apps is Filter Forge.

www.filterforge.com

It is a 2D image texture generator, and they have thousands of free codes to download. I have around 400 that I have collected that are very useful.

Filter Forge is a retail product, but they have a 30 day full trial, which is enough time to get the textures you want and (2D) render them out, as big as you want.

A good amount of the textures codes can also render out the various maps for a texture, meaning you can seperately render out your textures diffusion, bump, specularity, alpha etc. maps.

And, those all can be saved out as higher bit images (16-bit, 32-bit), so even if I might not use a codes texture, I may render out its 16-bit bump map, and use that as an interesting Terrain or Lattice in Bryce.

But, use that 30 day trial to its most! Filter Forge is not cheap to buy, it retails for $240 for the Pro version, which is really just a no-brainer as you need Pro to save out larger than 3000 pixels, render 16-bit bump maps, or use more than just one cpu core.

Texture code available here;
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1554.html

Wood Workshop - Seamless tiling wood textures, boards, etc.
Spiral Graphics (Genetica) Texture Packs - assorted freebies, seamless.

Belden Bricks: Top right of screen - 'Masonry Designer' & 'Paver Designer', render brick patterns to texture.

G.I.M.P. - Don't leave home without it.

Perhaps someone can 'Sticky this'

City Generator, from Analog-X64 in THIS THREAD.

Just keeping the 'Useful Utility' links in this sticky thread...

Quote - Windome
http://www.geocities.com/electroglyph2002/freestuff/windome48.zip
This little utility created by Richard J. Bono does only one thing. It creates all kinds of geodesic domes. Just a section or an entire sphere. Exports DXF files.

Tried to d/l  but got error when trying to open zip ... could be corrupted zip pack.

Any one have success d/l'ing this?

TS

Links for wonderfull tools have already been posted here! :)

Maybe, some external Terrain Editors should also be mentioned here:

Terrabrush
Terraformer2
World Machine

Surely, the were made for Terragen, but all of them also support bmp Export, so one can use them with Bryce. The Space Ship in my last Pic "Storm Rider" is a Terragen Terrain converted to bmp and use on a symetrical lattice, for example.

Matthias

Thunderstone,

Sorry.

Downloaded this and it was corrupt. Opened the zip on my computer and it worked fine. Uploaded that file and it was corrupt again. Did this two or three times and the upload always broke it.

I finally created a brand new zip with one extra folder called windome that everything else is inside of. Downloaded it and it works. Use this link.

http://www.geocities.com/electroglyph2002/freestuff/windome.zip

My best freind is metasequoia, for those who don't like wings.
No mention of Smartpipe yet. I down loaded it but then got lost. Anyone got any instructions?

@ **electroglyph

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Quote - Thunderstone,

Sorry.

Downloaded this and it was corrupt. Opened the zip on my computer and it worked fine. Uploaded that file and it was corrupt again. Did this two or three times and the upload always broke it.

I finally created a brand new zip with one extra folder called windome that everything else is inside of. Downloaded it and it works. Use this link.

http://www.geocities.com/electroglyph2002/freestuff/windome.zip

No problem... I downloaded it and it unzipped perfectly... Thanks!!!! Now to create some domes!!! Yay!!!

TS

Some great links and utilities in this thread. I figured I would pass along a few that I know of in case any interested.

Ivy Generator is a program to make IVY grow over surfaces of an object file and then you export the ivy out to any program that will use an OBJ file ( The original object you grew the ivy on does not go with the plant. ) It does a rather nice job and I have used it to put growing ivy vines on pillars in Bryce. It does run into some issues sometimes during the import with the materials assigned, but in Bryce you can just assign your own materials and textures, so ignore the error messages on materials when importing. This is a free program and the author allows it to be distributed so I put a copy in my online briefcase for downloading. Make sure you read the text file on how to use this as some people have tried to use the program without doing this and although an easy to use program, requires a couple of steps to start the growing process.

Link:   http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/goshtac/lst?.dir=/3D+Free+Programs&.order=&.view=l&.src=bc&.done=http%3a//briefcase.yahoo.com/

Another handy plant program that is now free is Plant Studio for creating your own plants to import into other programs. Make sure you copy the registration info you need to enter from the download web page so you don't keep getting nagged to register. This was a commercial program at one time that the authors now give away.

Link;
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/download_new.html

Bruce

Gearmaker is another useful little freebie proggy. You'll find it in the Freebies!

Did a search but couldn't find it...

Click on the artists homepage and go to artist nput.

Gear maker
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I'd recommend "Particle Illusion", awesome post work app for adding all kindof particle and SFX effects, to animations or to stills. Expensive though.

http://www.wondertouch.com/

I got the v2 SE version free with an art mag years ago, alas, it can only render effects the same size as the actual image on your screen
this means I can only use it on images less than my monitor display size, grrr, so I use it on cut out parts of images etc

However I don't think that's a problem on the full version v3?

Fireball on this image (Vue, sorry :p) was done with Particle Illusion in post:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1667095

Mapzone... go take a look: http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/?PAGE=HOME