Forum: Bryce


Subject: Pro-Render Bryce Video Available :

pumeco opened this issue on Oct 01, 2008 · 84 posts


pumeco posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 6:00 AM

Hey thank's for going to all that trouble, Bobby 😄

Yeah, video file-size, resolution, codec, etc ... can be a real pain in the arse ... you get one part right, then there's a problem with something else - feels like you just can't win!

That was a neat idea to try putting the video in the video downloads, but like you say, can't be done because of resolution - which is a shame.  It would have been fine if the upload procedure actually downscaled the resolution automatically like YouTube does.  Still it's good you pointed it out because next time I'll see if it can be kept to 640X480.

Actually, I think I tried that but Bryce was too big to fit in the screen.  My video capturing software doesn't have that panning ability some of the others have - but I chose to go for quality over the ability to pan.  For 75MB though, the video and sound quality is very good considering it's resolution and running time.  It would have been even sharper if I hadn't been having computer prob's because it had to go through 'three' encodings before I got to what you downloaded - lol

Anything you want to do is fine by me Bobby, it's copyright free so fire away if you wish!

To be honest I'm far from happy with the video now that I look back on it.  Not only that, there's things I've accidentally missed from the video - and quite a biggie as well!  It's got me needing to do another video so ... I dunno ... maybe it's best kept low profile for now at least.

There's not many people uploading their results, the DAZ thread is certainly picking-up, but for the most part I'm shocked at how little response there is by way of render uploads.  Bryce doesn't have Radiosity so I'm amazed that Brycers aren't realizing what this thing can do for them, colour bleed is there for all to be had!

Anyway folks, two important things that need to be added to that video :

1 > Use 75% shadows on the sky and any lights, do not use 100% described in video.
2 > Don't use the 'Sky Dome Colour' setting (second from right), it must always be black.

Those two are very important and need to be taken into account.