www.kirkdunne.com/files/bryce_sphere_01b.zip

I made it in Bryce 7 Pro.

It's got quite a few things going on so your render times probably won't be that quick.
(IBL, three image textures, glass, anisotrophy, etc)

Have fun!

AS

Strange that I cannot create a click-able link in the forum here. It KEEPS adding "http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro" in front of my url I paste into the Insert Link window. No matter what.

Ah well, no matter You'll just have to copy/paste that url. :o)

AS

See what y mean Kirk...I'll report this unseemly bahaviour....thanks for the hours I'm about to use up btw...looks way cool.....

reported

You da man. ;o)

Btw, it is all Bryce booleaned so you can tear it apart and play with it.

Also, the zip flie is around 15mb. Just fyi.

Now, my wallet has to go the grocery store with the little woman...;o)

s'why I gits da big bux, heh heh heh

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Now, my wallet has to go the grocery store with the little woman...;o)

LOL

Now I'm getting out of here and into Bryce...see y'all t morra

I like the metal shader...

With image textures, its easy. :o

well it rendered fairly fast for me...till it hit that glass...slowed to a crawl, then once thru zipped right to the finish, and at the settings that came with the scene file....As a colour blind dude I use image textures a lot as that is the only way my greens stay green and not brown, same with blue/purple, yellow/bright green...

Nope..me da man, Bobby da old man.  :lol:

Cool render. Many thanks. ;-)

We won't at this point. get into the health issue then, hee hee hee.....

I'm old, not particularily slow

Very cool. ;o)

Btw, I think I might have ramped up the AA rays in the render options. Perhpas taking those back down to 7 might make the last pass speed up. Maybe, lol.

Taking the glass out REALLY speeds it up, lol.

@ AS

This is a booleaned object as you stated...  I'm curious what you use to create some of those other shapes as in your "As alway...experiments" last year about this time.

p.s. enjoyed that article on American action movies

Off the top of my head (without knowing exactly what images you are referring to) I would guess at Spheres and Tori, those are almost always my favorite objects to use when booleaning in Bryce. After that, would definetly be metaballs, they are a bit difficult/strange to work with but really fun.

If you can point or post to a render that you are thinking of, I'll upload that scenefile  also.

p.s. Lol, you saw that? Yeah, Hollywood has really forgotten what can make great "guy" action movies. Meaning action movies that are really just made for cool action. We are getting our butts handed to us by other countries now but that's a great thing, imo. It'll only help make us (hopefully) cool again. :o)

Oh, wait...darn it, I think I may remember what experiments you're talking about. Yeah, those used retail meshes I purchased from here at Renderosity. I'll see if they are still available....brb.

If it's the renders that I am now thinking about, they are meshes that came from this package that I had bought;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/deskar---fantasy-shapes---megapack-1/61094

Some REALLY great abstract meshes going on in there.

Don't bother looking for them.  I thought you had generated them with some arcane app you had in your quiver.

I down loaded your file and I'm rendering now using a different glass and a copperish image based metal I made and turned down reflectivity on your metal.  I'll post when it finishes.  Then I'll ask a question about how to get a machines surface look.  A picture is worth a thousand words.  I'll post tomorrow.  It is after midnight here.  Bryce keeps me up too late.

One of the apps that is used more than most to create "math" meshes is TopMod.

http://code.google.com/p/topmod/

Bryce is THE reason I am a night owl.

This is a better link for TopMod. Cool renders.

http://www.viz.tamu.edu/faculty/ergun/research/topology/images.html

The question:  It would be nice if the booleaned cuts had a machined out look that had some tell-tale mill marks on it, sort of like a drill or milling machine might leave.  How can I make a bump channel image to achieve that or use an existing proceedural??

Side note:  adding even the slightest fraction value to the displacement channel crashes my machine.  Memory problems?

Sweeeeeeeeeet render!! Dirty oxidation looking ;o)

"Machined look" Yeah...I have tried unsuccesfully to make a DTE mat that looked anything like mill marks or even brushed metal. Just couldn't get anything worthy. That doesn't mean others haven't! (pretty sure David B has made some brushed metal shaders?)

I did make a fake brushed metal bump map that was an image texture. It was "okay" but still really only looked best when rendered when using "Blurry Reflections" which of course slows renders down to a crawl.

Displacement: Yeah, from what I remember, just about anything that is just a booleaned object will either just not show any Displacement at all or just crash Bryce. You could try Collapsing the Boolean and trying Displacement, and/or Collapsing it, exporting it, re-importing it and then trying Displacement. No guarantees though, lol.

There you go with all those pretty little objects I was talking about.  You must have two machines or a time warp device seeing how fast you render and reply.  I have some of those brushed metal mats.

I can't see any reason to pursue the machine mark surface if you, the wizard, have failed the attempt in the past.

Imagine a cast iron automotive cylinder head that has the flat surface milled where it meets the engine block and the machined out combustion chambers and shiney surfaces where the valves seat.  (I worked in an automotive shop one summer in high school)

Well I off to sunrise service at church. 

Great. Som metal in the forum. Rock on

Testing Link 1

Not sure why the url box at the bottom of the editor keeps adding that extra stuff..but I have figured out how to get the link to work Kirk.

Type in the editor the title of your item, highlight it, then click the little chain link beside the bulleted list icon, add your link to the url box...another window will pop up and inform you that it is an external link, and do you want to add the required http? Click yes, and it will be a perfect download link ;)

I'll report the oddity in the url box tho to the programmers :)

Thanks!

Yeah, that was the ritual I was going through. Might be me too, using Firefox 11, so ya never know. Firefox comes out with a new version number hourly...sigh

I also noticed (after re-editing my post a handful of times trying to make it work) that every other time I did it, I would hit the "Insert" button and then nothing would happen. Kept clicking it but no go.

Like I said, probably Firefox, lol.

good chance ...I only use Chrome for Rendo...it was the first one to accept C&P of thumbnails to a forum after the last re build of the site

Ugh..I had nothing but problems with FF 10 and up...went back to 3 and everything is fine...but this oddity here is def not a FF 11 issue since Im having it too with 3..and it's {so far} only in the Bryce Forum.

"..and it's {so far} only in the Bryce Forum."

And everyone cast a leary eye at the Cardinal. Tis this bait for a dusty comfy chair?

Smacks of sabotage to me, Willie.

I can only C&P with IE.

working again as I just posted a link in another thread

Yay! :thumbupboth:

Thanks for the Mention AS :)

Sorry I came a bit late on this thread, long work week.

Will download and play.

Picked up an older generation AMD Quad Core PC since its my B-Day next Friday.

So I'll use this to test it out ;)

The render looks fantastic and thanks for sharing it with us, it is appreciated.