Orbital has thrown down the gauntlet with this well chosen subject for this month's challenge.

"I'm sure you all have heard of the magic hour or golden hour to some, when the sun is setting or rising giving everything a warm soft glow. So your challenge is to create an image to suit this theme. Use what you like in terms of imports, but as you know the way to learn is to do all you can in Bryce. Postwork is allowed but should be used as an asset rather than dominating the image."

**Sounds good to me.

****Good luck to you all. The Entry pages will be up shortly.

****The Deadline will be 12 MIDNIGHT ROSITY TIME May 31st 2010

Contestants are permitted only one (1) entry.**

**WARNING!!!!!  Anyone posting finished renders in the galleries before the end of voting will be disqualified from this challenge.

WIPS are fine as long as they are only posted in this thread.
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The Rules Page can be viewed here:
The Rules

Orbital's Challenge thread can be found here:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2801125

Entry Page is here.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/contest/index.php?contest_id=1084

I'm getting truly peed off with the latest version of Bryce beta 7.It's making doing this challenge very hard.

I had sorted out a sky that was as perfect as I could get it but have fallen foul of the bug that is currently affecting the beta.That of finding when you have saved a scene and then on reopening it finding it's not the sky you originally set up.Even saving it as a preset doesn't help.

So I thought I'd go back to Bryce 6.3 only to find that trying to open skylab makes the whole application crash.Bug report tendered.

So now I've gone all the way back to 6.1 in which the skylab controls in comparison to the Bryce 7 skylab controls are prehistoric..

I'm just not getting anything like the skies in beta 7  though.

Just submitted my image. yea, Byce 6.3 is a crashing POS IMO. Tried 7 very briefly and decided no on that. I might go back to 6.1 as well. At least it doesn't crash "as much" as 6.3. Thier support is crap as well. lol.

 Just in case it doesn't get approved in time...

It is now 11:36pm Renderosity time on May 31.  My image is in final stages of rendering.  I didn't start the project until about 4 hours ago.  I don't think it will make it but I win the procrastination award. 

I think I missed the deadline by 4 minutes.  dang!.   I even interrupted AA pass to finish it.  It wasn't that great anyhow, it was rainy today so I had some time on my hands.  It felt good to Bryce.  I've been busy lately trying to restore a 25 year old sail boat.

 post it anyway :)

Relax, Willie. You made it.
All works have been approved.

As a heads-up, I will be changing the deadline in future. Rendo time means that the deadlines are at 6:00am for me. I'll be changing that to 12:00noon of the first day of every month

lol, i finished something just now, will just post it in the gallery :P

Draccy-baby!  Where you bin?

same place as always. don't think i don't follow the board :P

I kinda thought you'd disappeared into oblivion.

neah, i die with bryce :)