Hey there people, I'm working on this 12th century gothic project, and so far I've been able to make anything I wanted with Poser Bryce and Carrara... until now. I just can't figure out a way to make any realistic lightning. Could anybody help me out with this?

if you're rendering in Bryce,and it's an interior scene, turn off the atmosphere and get a completely black stage. Then use small,dim, radiant lights wherever you want your light sources, such as torches, candles, etc. if it's outdoors, make it a very dark sky and do the same thing. Or create and object, then in Bryce group a radiant light or spotlight with it. On all those, play with luninosity and falloff till you get what you want. Using texture gels over the lights also gives interesting effects.

Thanx alot, i'll try it this instant.

doh, sorry, I thought you said lighting. I don't sleep much, my mistake. If you have photoshop with the xenofx plug in, that's what I use anytime I want lightning. Here's one idea I haven't tried, but it should work. Take a bare tree model boolean it until you have only the branchings you want, turn it upside down, apply a texture that would make it appear to be light, then take the render into photoshop, select the lightning by using the wand, then apply eye candy's glow filter to it. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

Now this makes more sense, I must admit I was all confused with your other answer. I have photoshop but not the plugin, is it a free plugin? if yes where can i get it

Nope... Neither xenofx nor eye candy plugins are free.. but they're worth the money, in my opinion. Probably among the most useful plugins I've ever used.. Actually.. they're just about the only ones I use. Rosh

There is also a material for electricity at chemical studios .. however you can do it a couple of different ways in Bryce .. here is an example all done with no post work

YES Thats IT!!! How didja do it, Exactly what I had in mind, PERFECT! I'm going ballistic here. Do you have any idea how long I've been trying to get an effect like that.

Well there is a few different lightning strikes ... The ones in back are drawn with reference in photoshop. Quick angular clicks on a black background with white ... I supposed you could take a scan of lightning as well pushed very high contrast ... In Bryce you make a picture plane and then load the lightning in one channel and in the second you load it as a transparancy ... Put a light near the strike and there you go .. Hope that helps

Very cool

Yup sure did