Forum: Bryce


Subject: New user needs a little help

Roy G opened this issue on May 13, 2002 ยท 8 posts


Stephen Ray posted Mon, 13 May 2002 at 3:32 PM

There is away to import multiple objects and keep the placement ( from each other ) correct. Use a trajectory object. That is, an object used to determine where other objects will be placed ( in Bryce ) It's really simple, say you have a poser scene with 4 figures, and their already positioned. Create a mesh plane ( prop )and place it on the Y axes like it's the ground the figures are standing on. Then in top view scale the plane on the X & Z so it totally encompasses all the figures ( no body parts hanging over the edges ) Then export one poser at a time and include the plane ( with each one ) in the export.Then when each one is imported into Bryce, Bryce sees the plane as being the biggest object ( on X & Z ) and uses it as the central object, so the plane falls to the center of the work space. And the poser is still at it's location on the plane. After you import each one just delete the planes. If there is any issues with the Y positions, use the drop command on each group. Most imported objects can be exported out of Bryce by selecting them then use the E icon, when the edit menu is open press Ctrl + D, ( or maybe it's Alt + D ). You may have some issues exporting poser figures, depends how they were exported out of Posers. You can lock objects in Bryce ( attributes menu ) but after an object is locked it can not be selected by clicking on it. ( can only be selected off the object's list ) So what you probably want to do instead is hold the Ctrl key and right click on the object then select it from the pop up menu.

Stephen Ray