greetings,

my name is michael robison, and i'm a total newbie at this. i foresee many dumb questions coming from me. please have patience. i promise i will always work on answering my question before i post.

anyway, i'm on the second chapter of kitchens's real world bryce book using a windows os. it says that when i render it creates a bmp. i rendered. where is the bitmap? i never saw a dialog to ask me where i wanted it placed or what i wanted to call it.

i searched for *.bmp files created in the last day and got nothing. i thought it might be like poser and require an export from a native format, but after reading kitchens i don't think thats true.

thank you, miker

After the render is finish, choose file menu and clic save, the first one. After that go to the directory you use where save the Bryce file and there you will see the BMP image of your render. Pleiades

Did you go into the file menu and select "save image as"? Bryce doesn't automatically save the image unless you save the setup, then it saves a bitmap in the same folder you saved the setup. If you select "save image as" you can save it in many formats from low to high quality.

After the render is complete go to file / save image as or Export Image. And save it to your hard drive. Another tip is to go to edit / Preference, the enable ( Image with scene open/save ) Then every time you save a project file the render will be saved with it. This is real handy because you can stop a render before it's complete save then at a latter time open the project back up and use the resume render button to pick up the rendering right where it left off.