This shows how Bryce 3.1 and Bryce 4 treat the "Foaming Sea" texture. As you see, Bryce 4 gets it so badly wrong colored in the screen render as to be useless for me, and various tweakings in the Deep Texture Editor did not cure the trouble. The same happened when I exported my Bryce 3.1's Foaming Sea texture as a .MAT file and imported it into my Bryce 4. I sometimes make sea pictures, and I need the Foaming Sea texture to be right. When will this be put right? What's happening?

I have no idea, but I'm using the Bryce 4 demo and I don't have any problems with the foaming seawater texture. You don't actually have to convert it to a mat, Bryce 4 will import bryce 2 and 3 shds. Maybe something went wrong in the exporting process

(1) Please, what is a shd? (2) I got the grey sea in Bryce 4 BOTH with its own Foaming Sea AND when I imported my Bryce 3.1's Foaming Sea as a .MAT file. My Bryce 4 was not a demo, or it was not described as a demo. I bought it from Software Unlimited, and Poser 4 also, and each came as 2 CD-ROM's (in one of those annoying double CD-ROM cases), one being the package and the other being various extra matter. Have various versions and updates of Bryce 4 been distributed at various times?

Is your sky reflecting in the water? Looks like two different skies.

I agree with anvilhead. I believe the difference is due to the sky reflection in the water-or at least this is how it appears. . I would try using different skies and see what happens. I've used foaming sea a number of times and it, like all the seas (some more than others because some are more reflective than others)looks quite different depending upon the sky set. to my knowledge, there is only one Bryce 4, altho' there is a demo. That is what I first dled from MC's page last Spring and then bought the full app-which is what you must have gotten if you got the 2 CD package. Diane B Diane B

I think it is the sky as well .. haven't had any problems with the material so far ...

That's what its from is the interaction between the sky & water. Its not a bug. -NMB-

See above all--I did a quick demo showing the effect of the sky reflection, etc. on the foaming water. I've found, almost invariably, that when I THINK its the program, its always me--some little variable that I was unaware of or a preference I set, etc. I honestly haven't had any 'bugs' appear that I know of--some 'annoyances', yes S. Diane B

BTW, a .shd is short for shader, which is what Bryce 2 used instead of .mat, which is short for material

Have you downloaded the Bryce 4 patch ? it's at MC's website,while your at it download the new volumetric presets,they are slow but worth it IMHO. good luck Hawkfyr