hi all! is there any way to copy/clone and randomize trees to a forest in bryce 5? for example in a small, but cool program named forester (http://www.dartnall.co.uk/) you draw a distribution map and the program sets randomized trees on your painted map.... is there any way to do that in bryce, too? thor

You could multireplicate then 2D disperse. Careful with how many you make....

That would send the polygon count way up.You could use the 2D tree picts in the create palate and do the same with that. You could even make your own using bryce and a paint program to se up an alpha channel. This is not somethingthat Bryce is good at. I used to use Natural scene designer on the mac when I wanted pics with lots of trees.

Poly count doesnt go up a lot in Bryce5 with multirepication of trees. Trees are metaballs..ie, not polygons. you can have lots of trees...just create one group that is pretty random, the duplicate the group and move it to a new location. to avoid problems later, ungroup all of the trees and assign them to a family (before you save) because a bug in b5 may prevent you from ever opening it again if you save them grouped. this pict is bryce..and bryce trees.. about 300 trees..and the file size was only slightly over 120 megs. luck BT

Gee I didn't know it was THAT effective...WOW very nice

Do you really need 300 trees? Don't you just need enough trees to be seen by the viewer? Just wondering.

tis more to this scene than this one pict seven :) in the flash movie, you see the whole area as the camera pans around :) BT