Paul, I'll approve your entry but it would be very helpful if you would post a wire-frame here, please.

Hmmm.  Is the Bryster preparing the comfy chair????

Paul's entry is a rather clever use of a single sphere IIUC. I'm asking him to post a wire-frame to head-off any accusations of rule-breaking.

My Bryster decoding ring seems defective; IIUC?

Here is the wireframe, which tells you virtually nothing, so I've added some extra screenshots to explain what's going on.  The apparently multiple spheres are really one sphere - if you look carefully in the posted picture, you can see a couple of artefacts that give the game away.  It makes use of Bryce's amazing ability to render volumetric materials in full 3D glory.  I began with a standard Bryce procedural 3D volumetric texture;  this originally made use of the alpha you can see in Texture A channel in the Material Editor, and would have rendered the sphere look like it does in the small inset picture.  I then loaded another alpha to replace this one, again a standard Bryce one, called "Blue Dots" into the Texture B channel, and set Texture B as the source for the Base Density.  This then produces a set of spheres in effect carved out of the original sphere, if you will, as in the posted render.  However, where the volumetric shapres intersect the surface of the sphere, they get cut off.  On the right, I have set the diffuse channel to bright green and also changed the value of the base density as well as the scale of the "Blue Dots" alpha - this is still the same single sphere, but now it's almost full of solid volumetric texture, which hopefully illustrates the effect better.  It's really only the same principle behind the "Ball Bearings" 3D volumetric preset that ships with Bryce, or indeed any volumetric texture.  Amazing stuff!

Wow!!! That is very interesting!!! I think I would like to try that soon... Thanks for the tip!

IIUC = If I Understand Correctly.

Paul, thankyou very much for the shots. The wireframe does me that you only used one sphere and not dozens as seems the case with your green blobs/balls. This is actually genius. I have no idea how you worked this out. Very impressive work.

Ooooh!  A new Bryce guru!  I am not worthy!  I am not worthy!

Actually, I did something similar to make a "snow" globe years ago.... Bryce is just amazing, init?

Quote - I have no idea how you worked this out.

Easy - 10 years as a Bryce obsessive (my name is Paul and I'm addicted to Bryce but am recovering), and many, many bottles of Newcastle Brown.

Quote - Easy - 10 years as a Bryce obsessive (my name is Paul and I'm addicted to Bryce but am recovering), and many, many bottles of Newcastle Brown.

 

LOL Yup! That'll do the trick... hehehe... :lol:

I'm in denial.

Is the water nice there, TheBryster? ;-)

Corrie

:lol:

Uploaded my image Thursday and still don't see it - just wanted to make sure it made it before the deadline!

Relax, Dan. You made it!

Thank you Sir! And what a good turnout.

Soooo when does the voting begin??? I have already picked my favorites.

Greetings!

  I'm not seeing where to upload my image into the October challenge. Did all this change since I last entered a challenge?

Oh oh, looks like I missed it. 12 noon UK time. Missed it by a few hours.

Vote here........................

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2814756

D.@.M. sorry you missed it. I did leave it open a while after the deadline due to RL stuff.