Jedswindells have suggested the following for this month's challenge theme.........:

" 'Back to the Beginning'
Remember your first Bryce image? (I'll bet it was a shiny sphere over the sea).
The challenge is to create something amazing with just a sphere,a plane and a terrain!
Pure Bryce,no imports."

The word 'Plane' means a ground plane, not an aircraft - not that anyone would try to take advantage. ;-)

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

****The Deadline will be 12 NOON UK TIME October 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

Oh, goody!
That sounds great! :-D

Corrie

I'm already on it!

Sweet.

Entry Page is up!

Have a question... Can you use more than one sphere, terrain or plane? And can you use one of the primitives, like cube, torus, pyramid, or cone? one of the 2D's?

I think the limitations are pretty strict with this one. Jed said the following:

*"...just a sphere,a plane and a terrain..."

*I would take as one of each.

Bryster, don't forget to check the entry uploads. I am sure with what we've learned during our experiences with Bryce, the simple SOW can be transformed into anything our mind can conjured up. Right?

TS, great entry and it's approved. FYI, I do check the uploads everyday, sometimes twice a day.

 Perfect - nice to have a simpler challenge, especially since I'll be gone for a week and only have access to my Mother-In-Laws computer. And maybe I'll get it in on time!

Silly question maybe :
When trying to submit my entry I get the message :
You must attach a file to this contest.
What do you mean ? Is it the BR6 file ?

ADBC, don't worry about the file thing. I didn't remove the option box when I set the entry page up. You're only obliged to upload a thumbnail and your challenge entry. If you can't upload your imags, upload the br file. It won't be part of the voting process anyway.

The Bryster,
Thanks, uploaded the BR6 file as well as the image and thumbnail and it seems to be OK, got following message though :
"The file you uploaded was not a valid file type or exceeded the size limits. Your entry was saved without the file(s), and will be reviewed shortly".
I suppose it'll be OK.

ADBC, your entry is up! ;-)

My first  Bryce Monthly Challenge :-) , great theme.

Ultimately an extremely fancy theme ;)

I can hardly remember my very first Bryce image back in 97... sure must have been a sphere :biggrin: At the end of that first night I managed to render a scene with a submarine (made out of spheres  ) emerging between icebergs..

Let's see if I'm still familiar with spheres.

Let's see if I'm still familiar with spheres.

They would be the round shiny things.;-)

Yeah thanks, just found them :biggrin:

I hope my upload works, it gave me an error message for not including the file...

I think you can ignore the error message. Please try again.

I, too, get that File message.
I would love to ignore, but is my image now uploaded?

Corrie

Peedy, er..that would be a no. No sign of it.

Ok, will try again, tomorrow (My tomorrow. ;-) )

Mmmh...

I uploaded the files again, this time with an empty (small) Brycefile to dodge the errormessage but this came up:

The file you uploaded was not a valid file type or exceeded the size limits. Your entry was saved without the file(s), and will be reviewed shortly.

Hopefully the images found their way to the server.

Original file: 1024x600 - 224 kB
Thumb: 100x100 - 5,94 kB

To all that get the error when uploading image for the challenge.... Simply put the same image file that you are uploading into the file box. Renderosity does not recognize bryce file formats.

TheBryster will have modify the upload file boxes so the next time there will be no or less confusion, eh?

Hey, Fran, thanks so much!!!!! :-D

Corrie

Ok, re-posted it, Fran's way.
Did it come now?

Corrie

TheBryster will have modify the upload file boxes so the next time there will be no or less confusion, eh?

Please tell me he's doing that right now... all upload boxes are gone :woot:

..calm down Benny... try it again later

Peedy & Lordgoron, your images are up!

The thing was that I forgot to untick the box that requires entrants to upload a file. Once the challenge is running I can't undo that. My bad.

Bad, bad boy! LOL
Thanks!
Corrie

Bad, bad boy! LOL
Thanks!
Corrie

Of course, I CAN delete entries at anytime.................

Did I say Bad boy?

Yes, I did.

But I didn't mean you, oh mighty marsian. hehehehe

* oh mighty marsian*

'Your Eminence' will suffice, followed with a curtsie.

LOL!
Eminem?
You are Eminem??????

Perfect! Thanks so much for your help  :-)

To the Comfy Chair with ye!

Trying to send my entry and keeps saying I need to attach a file to this contest?????

Use Thunderstone's tip, above:
Simply put the same image file that you are uploading into the file box.

I did and it works like a charm!

Corrie

Cheers!

The halloween contest works the same way...its been like that for as long as I can remember. 

Quote - The Bryster,
Thanks, uploaded the BR6 file as well as the image and thumbnail and it seems to be OK, got following message though :
"The file you uploaded was not a valid file type or exceeded the size limits. Your entry was saved without the file(s), and will be reviewed shortly".
I suppose it'll be OK.

Got the same error message - hope it all uploaded okay:) I don't usually enter the competitions just because I get stuck for inspiration when given a set scene to create, but I couldn't let this one slip by...great fun!:)

IO4, your entry is up! ;-)

Thanks Bryster:)

This sounds like fun. Count me in!

--Death

Safe to assume that "PURE" Bryce no imports also means no postwork?
:)
The eternal question...

Welcome back, Claymor and Death_at_midnight!!! Welcome back!!!! I'm so looking forward to seeing more of your artwork. @Claymor As for postwork, the rules doesn't specify, so I would venture to say that it's permissible. Right, TBryster???

Although this challenge makes no mention of postwork I would say it is permitted but should be kept to a minimum.

posted an entry then realized I created a texture which, of course, was an import. I can use a Bryce default if need be...Lemme know Bryster

I don't think textures count as imports. You're approved.

Submitted my first ever challenge entry!  Great idea for a theme.

Paul, you got site-mail.

I can't seem to find the upload page any more!  I go to the entry page, but the upload boxes have all disappeared!