Can anyone tell me what those paths are for???? And how I can use them???? Thanks

Wozz..this is a 'read-the-manual' answer and if you still have trouble with basics, post THAT question OK... Cheers Kate

Kate the Great strikes again ;) although I must concur :) You might want to MOVE through the forum and see if you can look up anything on Paths you wouldnt believe how Animated the community is about this subject!

If you're new to Bryce and asking what a path does (and forgive me if I misunderstood) the easy way to say is that its a predefined 'road' through your bryce scene that an object can be put on and told to follow. Can be the camera, or a sphere, or whatever. So if you use a preset path, or make one yourself, and put a sphere on it and set your animation appropriately, bryce will make a movie with your sphere moving along that path. A simple circle path around a large sphere with a smaller sphere moving along it will result in a movie that shows a moon orbiting a planet. Paths are essential to making animations, though you can animate without them.

Eric your too nice. Sometimes its ok to make the Newbies work for it lol. Especially a question like this. no offense wozzyke,

sorry but am not a newbie, am just starting to animate, sorry if you all feel too good to help someone....

wozz...I'm sorry..I've been helping you with other things so you should know its not because of being 'better' than you....this post just sounded like you didn't have a manual at all and that usually means the software may not be legit...if I've made mistake I apologise here for all to see :) Peace Kate

It's not that anyone here doesn't want to help or thinks they're too good. This is one of those questions that are more easily explained in the manual since it's a fairly long explaination. Page 88-89 of the Bryce 5 manual explains paths. If you have Bryce 4 I'm not sure because mine didn't come with a paper manual and is a .pdf file on the disk. If you don't have any of these then people are a little reluctant to help because then it's quite possible that you didn't get the program legally and you will find no help here. It's the simple questions that throw up warning lights for people. Either someone got the program illegally or they are just too lazy to read the manual or search the forum, many times a question has been asked and answered a thousand times . Read up on it then if you still have questions someone would be glad to help.

Sorry for disturbing you aal, I will read the manual and do not ask stupid things again, I only hoped that it could be explained easyly. But in this case I will refer all the other poeple who have questions to the manual, as is done with me.... Am a little angry, but never mind, will be better tomorrow, bad day

No one's trying to blow you off and you're not disturbing anyone. If you don't understand something once you've done some research then ask away. Paths have many uses. Constrian an object to a path so that it only follows the path when it moves or even multi-replicate an object constrained to the path to form beads, chains etc. I suggest getting Real World Bryce 4 which is an excellent book with lots of info on how to do things. Amazon.com should have some copies, it just as useful for Bryce 5 as it is for 4....not much difference between programs.

You know, not to suggest that this is happening in this thread, but I've seen more warez visitors in the last few months than I have in the several years that I've been a member. I guess the radar is up and we just want to be comfortable in who we are chatting with. If you go to pages 133-135 in the B4 manual and want to quote something that isn't clear to you, or somewhere around page 89 of the B5 manual, that helps put us at ease.

Dear lord, I can't remember the last time I saw my manual, I think I lost it in a move (or maybe just lost it I have no idea honestly) Its been forever since I've been around (I think I qualify as an oldie) but I haven't touched bryce in ages. While I understand the troubles with pirating and everyones firm belief in the fact that you should buy the software and support the industry (I totally concur just for refrence) its a shame to see that its degenerated into this. Unless someone is asking for where to get a cd key or what a good warez site is I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt, and we all ought to try our best to help em out regardless of wether or not the information was in the manual. I certaintly remember what a pain in the ass it was to drag information out of the manual, and more often than not it did a terrible job of explaining what was going on. SO come on folks, a little consideration for the struggling newbies, you probably would have appreciated it when you were just starting out. -Tempest-

Thanks tempest, I really appreciate this, its not that I'm a newbie, but I'm a newbie when it comes to animating. The problem is that such a manual on PC not easy is to read, thats my opinion, and my english is not that good so I hoped that someone could explain in his/her words how to begin animating in bryce. be shure I have a registered version, and I wouldnt dare to post here if it wasnt so.... hope I made clear I'm not a warez FREAK. And hope you all will help me next time I have a question, but I will first look around for help and use the manual before I post a question here. It's just that I have learned so much since I'm a member here that I thought that all of you nice people wanted to help me..... See ya all soon

To Aldaron: I REALLY appreciate the tip about the book Real World Bryce 4! I went from your post to Amazon.com and ordered the book. To Wozzyke: I agree about the manual not being that helpful. It's like a book about a foreign language that leaves out the verbs. I often end up wondering, "But how do I DO this or that?" For instance, I'm figuring out how to work with lattices, but no thanks to the manual. I would have loved some examples about how to create various objects. If I run into something I just can't do, I'll check out tutorials and do a search in here, but more basic info in the manual would have been nice!

Ok I'll be the first to apologize. I tend to forget not everyone on the net is English speaking and many find the manual almost useless. I have to admit I don;t even think I've read the manual but I have searched for many tutorials on the net and since I've gotten Real World Bryce I haven't needed the manual. Now wozzyke, are you looking for general animation tips? (which BTW is about 300 pages in Real World Bryce) or just paths. You asked how do paths work. In the manual on the pages I've given it breifly explains how they work. If you need more specific on like "how can I do this?" then ask away. See some questions are just too general to answer, but specific questions can usually be answered with "Step1....." PS Willowjune you are very welcome. That book is over 1000 pages thick and worth every cent.

I often wonder if s/w companies would do me a deal and give me the software without the manuals! I've got about 25 gleaming, shiney, smell-like-new manuals up there on my shelf and I've never looked in any of them! Maybe one day... ;)