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Subject: "...designing the heavens... but Bryce star's suck... any tips?"

LordAckmar opened this issue on Apr 24, 2002 · 16 posts
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LordAckmar ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 1:59 PM · edited Tue, 29 October 2024 at 2:29 AM

"Recently sort of got the hang of the bryce 5 celestial editor... And I also found it's stars are horrible... they look like glowing paint smudges!... any good programs or ideas? Help would be appreciated." LKA

Stephen Ray ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 3:07 PM

This will give you an idea of real space. http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html There used to be a program called Universe ( not sure if it's free or not ) It's not Electric Image's Universe, but a program that makes space images ( nice backgrounds ). Maybe some else knows the link. Anyway here's a place with all kinds of freeware, ( click on graphics ) http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_all.html Maybe there's something there ( I don't know )

Stephen Ray


clay ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 3:18 PM

I find that setting the Star's brightness slider down to about half or so works well. Also tweaking the RGB perspective along with the haze settings will produce a glow around the stars.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

LordAckmar ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 3:33 PM

"Appreciated, thanks." LKA

Alleycat169 ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 3:47 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=8339

Or you could buy my high resolution starfields right here on renderosity for $6.95. ;-)

Rochr ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 4:20 PM

Attached Link: http://www.diardsoftware.com/

Heres the link to Universe Image Creator. A GREAT program. It costs $25, but its worth it.

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
www.rochr.com

Enforcer ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 4:28 PM

Attached Link: http://www.diardsoftware.com/

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The program Universe mentioned above can be downloaded here. Their free version doesn't allow for planet or galaxy images but for plain starfields it's fantastic. I created this with just the free version.

Enforcer ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 4:29 PM

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I used Bryce for the figure and Universe for the rest...

Aldaron ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 5:23 PM

You can also try starbits at www.astroscape.com

GROINGRINDER ( ) posted Wed, 24 April 2002 at 7:24 PM

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For my image I used the glitterato filter from flaming pear in photopaint and applied the bitmap to a flattened cube as a background in Bryce. For something a little more realistic you could download pictures from one of the many NASA free sites and do the same thing.

EricofSD ( ) posted Thu, 25 April 2002 at 12:48 AM

I agree on the stars. Go to custom and turn down the intensity some. Play with the lighting ambiance. You'll get better results then, but its still limited. Universe and Starbits are obviously programs that help, but they are 2d images that you have to use as a background. Maybe corel will wish list this for the next upgrade.

weirdass ( ) posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 6:22 PM

Attached Link: http://www.weirdass.net

Follow the links out from http://www.space.com to find the NASA public archive. There are Hubble/Apollo images there in the public domain. Use something like imageready to make them into tiles, set them on a sphere the size of the universe with cast shadows, self shadows, etc set to off.

GROINGRINDER ( ) posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 6:48 PM

Good tip weirdass a sphere is much better than a flat plane.

unclebob ( ) posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 8:51 PM

isn't there a way to edit the star file and have set to the correct right ascension and declination ? so that they would appear as seen from earth thanks, bob

3ddave44 ( ) posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 11:21 PM

Yes, there is a way to get Bryce to produce real sky map stars and as I recall they rendered better because there were multiple values of brightnesses, etc. Some kind of key combination click I think set the celestial editor into this mode. So that one could actually put real constellations like Orion and such in the sky. Can't remember for the life of me though the details.

Aldaron ( ) posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 11:26 AM

In the sky lab under celestial select custom starfield instead of random. Not sure but I suspect what constelation you get is based on camera position.

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