Yeah, since I can't be bothered to render something just for my own tiny self, I've decided to ask any one of you interested in a Bryce mini-contest to challenge me to do something. I just think the competition might kick-start me back into creating something.

So here goes: Challenge Drac to anything you feel like doing in Bryce. If you can do it better, Drac will [insert whatever you want here].

done. I will accept the hardest of all challenges presented here. Once I accept the hardest challenge, anyone else can join in on that specific task. At the end, I shall declare myself the winner, or ask the mods to judge, whichever I feel like :)

Draculaz

<grins & tags the the thread

sounds like fun LOL

Attached Link: how bout this?

no no no.. come on, there has to be a certain limit of decency and common sense.. i'm not backing out, i just don't have the time to do an animation..

well the model in any case...maybe he can do his own linking etc. .. ...

that's do-able. but i want to hear other options, as well :)

something like that, yeah. but infinitely more gory :D

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1705277

No fair using all those photoshop splash brushes.  Must be 3d render with minimal post work.  I say it is next to impossible.

do-able. would take forever to render, but do-able :)

That surf is fantastic!  Please do that one.

fine, i'll do it :)

Okay then, some ground rules. 

1. layering in post work okay.  (this is to reduce overall render times), but remember this isn't a freehand scene.
2. POV can be altered somewhat as long as the theme of massive breaking ocean wave is the main point of the challenge.
3. Minor touch-up in post is okay also
4. And yes, you can use Wings3d or other modeling apps if it will help your feeble attempt to gain grace as master modeler and pursue babies.
5. Talking smack is legal

I know you will most likely win or at least forever declare you did even if I or someone else beats the socks off you. 

Okay?

Who all is in and wants to see if the drac has lost his touch?  I'll give it a shot.

i'm okay with that... will take me 2-3 weeks, probably.

Way to go Drac.  I cannot wait.  Realistic dynamic ocean water has always been a holy grail that is unachievable for me.  Good luck.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=386

Attached Link: . .My first Renderosity upload

I'm trying to stay true to Cardinal Bryster and do this in Bryce, but the metaball wave and the mats I keep applying are making my machine very busy and finicky (read crashed about four time already even with 4gig of memory).  I may have to figure out how to model an organic wave in Wings or Hexagon if this keeps up.   Here is what I've got done so far.  Got a looooooong way to go.

@ uvdan

I've seen your organic skills in wings3d.  Why not model a wave and enter the fray?

Wow! Draculaz is going to do a Bryce landscape (OK, seascape) and skiwillgee is contemplating using a heretical app to help him "enter the fray"? Has the world turned upside-down?!!  And where does the ubiquitous, and righteous The Bryster weigh-in on all this?

**Hey another HEXAGON user!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!  It is not me you have seen using mad skills in Wings3D.   I am modeling in Rhino 3, Hexagon 2.5, and Carrara 6 Pro.  I was looking at your metaball wave and thinking perhaps an extrude or a sweep in Hex combined with minor point pulling would get the job done.  I think it looks great, but too bad on the rendering crashes.  We should categorize Bryce renders by how many machines you have to hook up to get the job done.

**

open query to drac,

How is yours going.  I gave up on bryce model and I'm learning wings on the fly on this.  I've got the wave modeled but smoothing it as a solid causes weird things to happen I don't understand. 

Hmmmm, no response from Drac.   Maybe he bit off more than he can chew or the moon has been full too long.

I will be ready in about another week to post something.

If Drac doesn't respond, does that mean I win and will be getting everyone's babies?

I resorted to Wings3d to build a wave.  I've been trying out some different stuff in Bryce and am leaning toward multiple renders and layering them in 2d app to get desired effects.

I cannot wait to see the results.

I'm looking forward to seeing your results too. If I had a functional drawing tablet I would enter this fray using the alpha of 3DCoat's new volumetric modeler. Making a curling ocean wave would be a doddle using that app. Some fantastic modeling coming out of 3DCoat. It is much more than a "poor-man's Z-Brush, Modo, or Mudbox".

This is simple wngs3d model of wave I used as an .obj

I'll start uploading a simple blow by blow over next few days.

You can model a great curling wave in Bryce with metaballs but any complex additions and materials will leave outlines of the primitives all over the place.  If some one knows how too have overlapping primitives with volume mats that don't leave artifacts, please share with me how to do it.

I have no idea how I missed this thread.

If nobody objects, i'd like to give this a go myself. Watch this space.

I thought Peter Sharpe had one I downloaded all his tuts before his site went down but nothing there I know I saw one years ago on how to make a wave like that in Bryce. Am still searching I lost all my old sites so not sure where it was could be gone like Peters too.