If only there was a way to eliminate the 'stair sepping' on the arch interiors...looking good to start man. I guess the camera just doesn't fill the gap eh?...too long Brycing...LOL.. ...

You can kill stair-stepping in experimenting with subtle blurring of those lines. Just enough to get rid of the "jaggies" but not too much as to curve the edge away. Working in 16-bit and higher resolutions will also help finer control over the amount of blur.

AS

Is this painted in photoshop and then turned into a lattice?

I'm aware of the stepping problem, and will take steps to alleviate it.....

AS: Actually I had just finished to prototype for this late last night, but yes you are correct , subtle blurring and 16bit.

UVDan: I used a photograph of the front of a building. Then I make a layer. On this layer I start to select areas (like the stone face or trims) and colour them at differing levels of grey, depending on how much they protrude from the front of the building. In other words, the lighter the grey the more that part of the building juts out, and finally use black for the windows etc. Hope that describes the process.

Thanks.  I never thought about working on top of a photo.

Now added drain pipes and guttering.

The windows would have been done by now, but the glazers couldn't come till a week next tuesday.

Added the balcony.

Of course if you buggers knew how to boolean.......;-)

Beg your pardon?

OK. Seems to me like you made the building out of TE. So, you could smooth out the arches using neg cylinders....in a boolean operation.

I like the balconies.. nice detail...  

I see that building a lot by passing it regulary. Exciting to see how you "building" it. Looking good so far.

You live near there? Maybe we should share a coffee one day and discuss the finer points of Bryce.

Oh cool! I'll pop over and we can discuss booleans! :lol:

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LOL...oh Bryster...yer such  a missionary/teacher. I thought Cardinals passed those duties to underlings, heh heh heh.. ...

Well you're welcome to join us mate.

Dhama, I'd love to, my friend. But you guys talk about sharing a coffee. Does this mean you're too tight to buy a round? 

Bobby, when you get up to speed, maybe you'd like the job?

I just got a 'generic error' when I tried 16 bit

-I use Photoshop to make my 16-bit images, and sometimes I will have forgotten to make sure the image is 16-bit grayscale, not 16-bit RGB. Bryce will give an error when you try to bring in a 16-bit RGB image.

I'm not sure if that was the problem you were having, but I thought I would mention it for anyone's future use.

AS

*Dhama, I'd love to, my friend. But you guys talk about sharing a coffee. Does this mean you're too tight to buy a round? 

Bobby, when you get up to speed, maybe you'd like the job?*

Bring a straw.... what's the problem....

I'm a lot better but hate ver 5.5 so don't do a lot and the render times are so insane for any idea I've, with the exception of my one fluky contest entry, come up with I rarely have the computer time to finish a render as my workstation is actually that and spends a fair bit of time buying my food if ya get my drift...bitching over..I could never teach as good as all you longtimers in the one app...I'm far too Imagine rooted I fear to teach anything else.. ...

That was the problem AS, thanks.

Looking good...great work on the smoothing of the arches mate...thnks AS for that great tip.. ...

nice job on those arches dharma...

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Can't wait to see this finished..yer getting as good with terrain modeling as anyone I've seen.. ...

@Dhama:

I like to correct my misspelling of your name..  I spelled out Dharma instead of Dhama...  sorry

Your building is coming out fantastic..

I'm sure I just saw a little person look out of the window. :lol:

Looking excellent, though.

DOF works very well in this.

I like it a LOT!  :b_cool:

Beautifully done...  I modeled a building front a while ago and would love to do the rest of the building facade in this manner...    I really like this Dhama..  Excellent use of Bryce's terrain lab.

Holy Shit man...I am for sure blown away now...had a stab at this a day or so ago and even creating the maps itself is daunting. Having tried an arch window, my hat is certainly off to you...brilliant work indeed.. ...

Thanks for the encouragement guys. I will upload to free stuff soon, mainly as a how it's put together model... but one can always use it in a scene as well.
Now down to construction a whole scene. Yesterday I went back to the museum to photograph other textures, for the courtyard for instance.

Wow!

see my comment at the image.. ...

I wish you guys would stop uploading photographs to the Bryce gallery.

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Sorry mate, i'll stop immediatly...... ICM might object. :laugh:

...OK that tears it,  Gonna fire up Bryce tonight when I get home and play a little more with terrains and primitives. It'll be something a lot simpler mind you but I have to give it a try.

This is a very interesting process which nets some really impressive results.

BTW this forum is now bookmarked.

Well that just makes my efforts well worth the time spent. I wish you well with your modelling.
If people just realised how useful and how remarkable Bryce is, there would be a lot more using it.

I'm convinced that Bryce is the only software that can do almost anything and give excellent results without the user really trying.

...one of the things that made me a bit hesitant at first to really dive into Bryce were the render times I kept hearing about.  However based on my experiments, I now realise those are using the highest render and ray trace settings with very complex scenes.  Even though the render process is slower, I notice my system runs a fair bit cooler than in Carrara and Studio which I think is why I kept experiencing render crashes after 2 - 2.5 hrs with those applications.

...about 400$ to go until I can get my dedicated 3D machine.

Now this project would be awesome for a Tutorial.

Indeed it would my friend...indeed it would ....Now get busy dhama....LOL.. ...

See what I can do.

Good on ya man.. ...