Hi I just purchased bryce and would welcome any recomendations on getting started. Thanks

1.) Read. Read. Read. :) The tutorials here are very good. 2.) Play. Play around with bryce. I learbed the most by playing without thinking of a special image I want to create. Often I play around without savin the results -no prob, because I will use what I've learned in later works. 3.) Study the galery. Often you can learn from other artist. Look how they set the Field of view, how they use light, fog, textures to archive great images. Feel free to ask if something is unclear. The artists here are very friendly and helpful, as I mentioned by myself. That's it for the start - I hope it will help you. I'm looking forward to your first image! Take care, Jimi p.s.: I started with Bryce and the whole 3D-Art only weeks ago , too. :)

Spend the extra money and get "Real World Bryce" by Susan Kitchens. Even though it deals with Bryce 4, it's well worth the money and translates well to Bryce 5. And I agree, by all means go through the tutorials here, do them and save the results. There's sme excellent tutorials out there. Start a project. Think up an image, or object or world and try to make it. As you run into "how can I do this?", look up tutorials for it, scan the books. It's easier to learn something if you have a goal in mind.

I agree with jmahoney, Real world Bryce 4 is the bible as far as Bryce is concerned,so many useful tips in there. One thing, do not be scared of the deep texture editor although it may seem puzzling at first. Always try to make your own textures and skies.

Tutorials are great to get started. And also just fooling around with the tools is very good to learn the program. Even if the resulting models or scenes don't make any sense you learn much from it. Bryce was the first 3D-software I ever used and in the beginning I didn't use tutorials, but when I started using them it really was a boost, within one month I was already becomming familiar with most of the tools and I was making better scenes than the person who gave me the version of Bryce (I believe it was a free version of bryce 2 from computer-arts) and he had been using the program for half a year without tutorials.

TUTORIALS thats all you need and a little imagination...

WOW! what a response thanks guys