Okay Brycers here we go...

I'll be dumping a lot of links in this thread for you all to download some of my old Bryce Scenefiles. I'll be adding new files, every week. I'm still going through all my files to see what might be interesting to anyone but as of right now, I have 750Mb worth of my Scenefiles set aside for this thread (and I'm sure I'll end up including more than that).

And, then on top of that...also posted in here will be the entire collection of Bryce Content I created for all of my "Bryce Q&A" articles that I wrote for 3D World Magazine in 2005-2007, which is around another 400Mb.

Keep checking back and keep on Brycing!

Kirk

Btw, you can all thank Fran for kicking me into gear for starting this, as she emailed me wanting a couple of these scenefiles which got me thinking..."I wonder of it's possible to crash my website host's servers?"

Well, we might find out eventually but for right now we'll start out small and simple with the Scenefiles Fran was wondering about...

Download

It's using a fake hdri setup to create those reflections. (which is a setup I made/used in Bryce before we had hdri abilities) All it is, is a giant sphere encompassing the whole scene with a photograph on it, thus everything in the scene that is reflective/transparent benefits from the photo.

Download

There should be an image texture applied to the handle to give it that look of a metal "knurled" grip. The scenefile is in the original .br5 version (Jan 2006) and seems to load and render fine in all versions (5.x-7.x).

This was my attempt at making a sci-fi-looking handlight that could be used as an old flaming torch might. (As you muck about in caves looking for alien monsters).

Download

P.S.; The fully textured version of this...is coming next. (and yes, it lights up like a flourescent tube)

cool stuff man...great community spirit....

WayHey, goodies!!!

Sweet and thank you very much!  Subscribed!

Thanks for taking the time to do this, AS! You still rock!

Oh, WOW!
Thank you so much!

Corrie

Cannot thank you eneough for your generosity,

Tks AS.  You uploady I downloady.

I smell a rat. I think Smithy is running for US President and needs all the votes he can get.............

Seriously generous of you, Smithy! Thanks :thumbupboth:

I'd vote for him... could be a bit problematical, as I'm not American.  But....

AS for President! AS for President!

....

Might be a bit of a dubious appointment though, as he's already 'The Texture King'.  But what the heck!

AS for President! AS for President! Rah Rah Rah!

(we still need to get the Bryce Backroom open though - I need bunting and ticker tape.)

ROFL!

Oh, so it's ok to vote for him, not being American?
I am with Fran then.
AS for president!!! Yay!!

Corrie

Lol, I can do far more damage...er, I mean "good" if I'm not President. ;o)

There will be more textures, also. Obviosuly, pretty much all the Scenefiles have textures in them already (Image and/or DTE) but I have some scenes that are just textures. Some of those Materials have been made available in the past years but a lot have not.

I would also like to load up all my old backup .mat files and get them organized and available as downloads but I will adnmit that part...is going to take quite a while, lol. (they are by far, my most disorganized files of all)

Thanks everyone!
Enjoy (and there is more coming!)

Kirk

Wait...files can be organized?

I've heard that they can...but I think its just a conspiracy theory.
Like bigfoot and winning lottery tickets...I have yet to see it first hand.

hee hee hee from mad file land....

You mean we'll get to download loads of Agent Smith Mat files too!!!??

Wow.....  *Faints.

i'D thanks sweet

thanks, AS! That's a blessing in disguise, and shows you have a terribly soft heart for us. 

not to mention..works on us.. we'll vote for you if you stand up for being pres of the world.. 

about organizing files.. um..er..care to share the secret, i you work it out? I'm trying to sort mys tuff out..and sigh..in the middle of a ball of yarn unravelled by twenty kittens! 

apologies everyone for disappearing.. the world is upside down in my life..

Nah, no secrets to sorting files out in the Bryce Libraries. I know it will just be that old ritual of;

Open Mat Preset, select which Mats I want, export them out, then re-import them back into a new Preset.

Meaning (in case no one reading this has ever tried this yet)...I can open one of my giant "dump" Mat presets libraries. I hold down Ctrl and then individually click each of my say, glass mats out from the rest. I Export those as a Mat file somewhere onto my harddrive and then re-import that same file into a new empty preset library, prefererably one I have named "Glass", lol.

Which btw, is exactly what I shoud have done as I was creating those Mats (years ago) but ya know, things get crazy when in the heat of Brycing. ;o)

• Being Bryce 5, the "Priority" of this Scenefile will come up as "Normal". Set to it to "High" for you multi-core cpu users out there.

• The floor is an image texture who's Bump Channel uses just the same image as the Diffusion, which creates a VERY noisy bump, which looks horrible, so I went a created a new custom Bump Map for the floor and it is inside the zipfile (handlight_floor_bump.png) , you should really use that one instead, it creates a proper/clean bump that can be pumped up if you want/need.

Download

Enjoy!

Kirk

Not an absolute perfect bump map but MUCH better. ;o)

Well thank you very much. This object will be a tutorial all in itself...good on ya man....

Bobbystahr,

Yes exactly - It's like learning while gathering sweeties, every lick a lesson!

AS, I didn't realise you could save just some of the mats from a mass of them like that. I've been popping the mats onto spheres then resaving the mats into an empty preset.

Does that work with objects too?

And what did you actually do to create the new bump map?  I really want to know that.

Does that work with objects too?

• Sure does. Works with anything that's in a Library preset. Also, don't forget there is the other selection method by holding down Shift; as in say you want the first 10 mats or 10 mats that are some where in the middle, as long as they are all "in a line" one after another, you can click the first one, hold down shift and then click the last one and they all will now be selected and can be exported out.

And what did you actually do to create the new bump map?

• I will explain more a little later (as I am mere seconds away from bed, lol) but just made it in Photoshop, it's real easy and can be done just as easily in a free 2D editor like Gimp or PainDotNet. I've used the same exact technique to also create Terrains.

In fact (I forgot) I did use the same technique to make that floor tile into a Terrain to make it more realistic than just using a bump map. I'll grab that Scenefile also and upload it (next) (and explain it all)   :o)

Kirk

one more new thing learnt. thanks AS. will sort out my mats now. 

the new bump map looks sleek! 

"...it's real easy and can be done just as easily in a free 2D editor like Gimp or PainDotNet."

I'm going to guess that was PaintDotNet (I think PainDotNet would be a website to avoid, lol).

Thanks for giving out all these goodies!

And we didn't get you anything... :b_sad:

Five years of fun as a Mod here. That's more than enough, lol.   ;o)

LOL @ tjohn....missed that with my speed read....

Hands Kirk hair clippers....................That should do it TJohn :lol:

It just keeps getting better and better.  I need to keep pinching myself, to make sure this isn't a dream.

Rofl...PainDotNet is where you go after your render has taken more than a week. ;o)

And...actually, I'm now thinking Gimp is still better, lol.

Heresy!!!

hmm..cnet downlaod stats show more pple download photoscape. 

heresy?chris..own up.what do you use? :-p

a quill pen and india ink most likely, hee hee hee

I use arcsoft PhotoStudio which came with my scanner. Works not bad but no PS plugins which I came to rely on...now I gotta do that stuff on someone else's box....sigh...at least it's only across the street and he's a night owl as well. When they stole my computers they also took a small box of install discs, Win2000, Acrobat 5 and my Photoshop...no proof it was stolen so Adobe won't replace it...told me to get it from my insurance...but that stuff wasn't on the policy.

i have photoshop.. but was wondering whether painter or something esle was better than it. 

Quote - i have photoshop.. but was wondering whether painter or something esle was better than it. 

Depends on what you want to accomplish, Rosie. If you want to try your hand at digital painting with traditional media look and feel, like oils, acrylics, etc. then Painter is a good software for that. Photoshop has great tools designed for postwork, filtering, photo-manipulation, etc. All these imaging programs have  some things they excel at. It's kinda like asking which tool is better, a hammer or a screwdriver...do you want to drive a nail or insert a screw?

Yeah, Bryster, I know, "Heresy!"

:b_lipssealed:

Well, as far as FREEWARE goes, I think the winner is still Gimp.

I REALLY like how Paint.Net is just simple and straightforward but in trying it out just a couple days ago I discovered it cannot save selections which is a huge neccessity.

I myself have always used Photoshop and nothing beats it but in trying to describe how I do something with Bryce and Photoshop, a lot of people just turn off when they read Photoshop because most people don't have that piece of $1,000 software, so they don't even bother with the tutorial at all.

So, Gimp it is.

Quote - Well, as far as FREEWARE goes, I think the winner is still Gimp.

I REALLY like how Paint.Net is just simple and straightforward but in trying it out just a couple days ago I discovered it cannot save selections which is a huge neccessity.

I myself have always used Photoshop and nothing beats it but in trying to describe how I do something with Bryce and Photoshop, a lot of people just turn off when they read Photoshop because most people don't have that piece of $1,000 software, so they don't even bother with the tutorial at all.

So, Gimp it is.

Oh no!  I can't use GIMP.  I know it's free, and I've tried and tried. I heard you were supposed to be able to get it to look and work like PhotoShop - but it's nothing at all like PhotoShop, it's so alien I just can't use it.

I worked in PhotoShop at College and after that at Uni, and through Uni I managed to get an education version of CS4.

So I'm now stuck with that as I can't afford to upgrade to whatever the CS is now and I can't get used to GIMP.

This is dire!  And I was so looking forward to the tut...

Fran..CS6. I tried CS5...and oh my .it was like learning a whole new software. I tried the one month version of it.. 

why can't you use gimp? 

tjohn...thanks.. i think i will need to get painter.. . 

AS..I think Adobe is missing out so much on the mkt by giving it such a silly price...

well Rosie, they're likely tryin' to balance out all the cracks out there...that's my theory as to why 3d max is also so expensive. When I was investigating getting max years  back I found a forum where literally every other member offered me a crack...go figger. So I stayed with free or inexpensive software. It's also why I never jumped on the Vue train as cool a program as it is....too freakin much moolaa that I ain't got.

If it wasn't so expensive.. no one would create cracked versions, I'm sure. I don't think I've ever heard of a brcye cracked version..ok..even though it's now free. (oh..so why did I buy my bryce pro ? )

downloading the one month trial version of painter..at 342 megs..it'says it's gonna take an hour. sigh.. why does this remind me of rendering? 

Rosie, do you have a tablet?  Painter is a drag with a mouse.. 

"I don't think I've ever heard of a brcye cracked version"

• Yup, I have seen cracked versions of Bryce since at least version 4, and every version since, and yes, even now including the free version, lol.

"I can't use GIMP...it's nothing at all like PhotoShop, it's so alien I just can't use it."

• I have totally agreed with that opinion over the years as once in a while I would install Gimp just to take a look at it and yeah, weird/alien compared to Photoshop. But, I would have to say these latest versions of Gimp are much more like Photoshop...not exactly but much closer.

What I am going to do is to post a hopefully short and sweet "how to" on how I did that bump map. I say hopefully, because I have a tendency to go on and on...and on, lol (and make anything sound complicated). BUT, what I hope will make it more clear is I will re-create the entire bump ritual in Gimp and upload the Gimp file with all its layers, so you can all open it and tear it apart and hopefully say "ah..okay, I get it".

It's actually quite simple with just four layers and is all done with selctions and a mouse. Very basic.

Kirk

Btw..Corel Painter; It's sorta like Photoshop in the way that creating something that looks like its been done with Traditional media (real paintbrushes on real canvas, etc), nothing is better than Painter.

BUT...the drawbacks with Painter is that it is very expensive and to really master custom brushes, its a very steep learning curve (but it does have some very nice "out of the box" brushes)

Imo...the best and least expensive (retail) alternative to Painter is "Artrage". It's less complex and still can do a great job of traditional media simulation. And, it only costs $60 USD compared to Painters $350 USD.

http://www.artrage.com

and it's available for ipad and iphone as well...coolio...