Hmmm, there was a tutorial for this but I haven't been able to find it. Actually I had been thinking of doing my lake scene sort of like that--well, wanted to show the boat/'trasher' above and the water/bass below. I never could accomplish this. But--I do remember seeing a tutorial somewhere that showed how to do it. Maybe one of the older Bryce users knows how/where. Diane B

I think it looks great. Maybe when you render the top half, have the camera looking at the island a little bit closer to the water so you look more down the water instead of on top (if that makes any sense).

Is this a as-is render is is this two images composted together? Very interesting. FT

FastTraxx, Yeah, it's all just one Bryce scene, I'm looking to see if there's a better way this has been done, or is this how do do a half land/half water scene. I've looked around and can't say I've seen a picture done this way yet, I'm just trying something different. Any ideas on how to improve it, without doing anything in Photoshop to split the scene? I want to keep it all as one Bryce scene.

Ill look around to see if I can find anything on it. I really dig this concept/style, I cant wait to start on a few like this myself. I have a few ideas already, but give me a day or two to try them out and see how they look:) Most I could say right now would be to try adjusting the camerea angle to get a better shot.maybe try rendering to a cinematic/letterboxed style to get a wider view. or move the camera even with the water line. It looks great tho, Im digging it. FastTraxx

Hello, I found a link to a similar tutorial. http://www.aeol.com/brycepage/watertut1.htm Serpent

Serpent, Thanks, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for! I'll play around with Bryce and try to adjust mine. My pic is just a big cube with a water material applied to it! Dave

ah HAH--that was what I was thinking was the only way you could do that--or water 'volume' maybe?? Diane

did anyone happen to glance at my posting thunderbird in the gallery? It's a half water half land, and I think it was pretty good

actually, the way I did it was to use a block, very enlarged, for the water, with the edge halfway up the screen, and with a carefully chosen texture, I believe I used a slightly colored and wavy glass, then I laid a flat plane on top of that with the water texture. It seemed to work fairly well for me