Single Terrain with one, single channel DTE texture.

Thanks, SndCastie!

I also have Bryce 7 on my Windows 7 64-bit, also with 8gb of ram. (I can guarantee the rest of my hardware is much older than what you have)

I can only guess but here are some VERY random thoughts;

Try uninstalling Bryce and re-installing it. Install latest video card drivers, always use video card drivers from the manufactuorer NEVER the ones from Microsoft.

Try and not do any other work on your computer when rendering. (yeah, I know, that sucks) This should ALWAYS include disabling automatic windows updates!! I disable EVERYTHING that is "Auto" in the OS and in EVERY single program I have installed.

These are all just basic guesses at solving your problem. They may or may not help at all. Best of luck in your trouble-shooting!

AS

Had no idea there was a Facebook, Renderosity, Bryce page until right now. Cool. (and, one of my own forum links is on there, double cool, lol)

AgentSmith

"Additionally, offsite linking to other marketplaces are not allowed within the forum, gallery, or forum signatures."

• How unfortunate. Some instances, on other sites that have or are marketplaces, are free items.

1.) Eh, never truly left? But, MUCH more of my time had to be shifted to work (the kind that pays the rent). But, I always check this forums postings.

2.) My off time is random but when I do have it, it might be for a week at time, maybe even a month. Gotta fill the hours somehow. How better than with some Brycing!

AS

No problem, you're (all) very welcome! ;o)

AS

For convenience, here are all the Free Download Links to everything that I have listed from all the various postings above;

Sculpture Generator (Creates abstract meshes) - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/GEN/Sculpture%20Generator/

Mesh Lab (Converts .stl files to .obj files) - http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

Thingverse (Free 3D Meshes in .stl format) - https://www.thingiverse.com/glitchpudding/collections/math-art

Picturenaught (Resize giant HDRI's to a more use-able size) - http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/

Joost Vanhoutte (26 Free HDRI's) - http://joostvanhoutte.com/hdris

NoEmotion HDRs (150 free HDRI's) - http://noemotionhdrs.net

My Bryce 7 scenefiles;

• www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_01_a.zip
• www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_02_a.zip
• www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_04_c.zip
• www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_05_a.zip

Keep Brycing!

AgentSmith

One more render. You can download this complete Bryce 7 scenefile here; www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_05_a.zip

Again, this one has a mesh that I made in the "Sculpture Generator" freeeware that is mentioned above. This scene worked out well and I was able to implement a few little tricks I like to do;

• AFTER the HDRI was locked down, I turned on Fog and made it near black and with the right settings, it gives that dark gradient in the background horizon.

• Since the HDRI gave very blue reflections, I chose to go with the slightly opposite color of green for the mesh, so as to really set it apart. I also gave the ground plane a subtle red color. All these opposed colors help make the scene a little more dramatic.

NOTE - The scenefile only has only one difference to the image I am posting here, I had turned on the IBL soft shadows to a setting of 25.

Enjoy!

AS

That is some amazing testing work and data compiling (as always), Horo! Thank you!

AS

No problem, you're welcome!

"hdrlabs... is that the same place that does HDRShop?"

• Nope.

"Is it possible to get HDRShop to work with Windows 10?"

• No idea myself, I use Win7.

"is it possible to get a shortcut for it on the Windows 10 desktop?"

• I can only guess that the operation still works the same in Win10?; browse to the executable in either Windows Explorer or in the "Start, Programs" (if you even have that in Win10?) right click on that executable and choose "Send to", then "Desktop (create shortcut)".

"looking at these images with PictureNaut they all look a good deal darker and dimmer"

• That can sometimes be normal, depending on ones computer setup but no worries, HDR's have a huge dynamic range and can be lightened within Bryce. (basically, doesn't matter, don't worry about it)

Using Picturenaught to resize the 15,000 pixel wide HDR's;

• Click "File, Open".
• Broswe to HDR, double-click it to open it.
• After it is loaded, click "Image, Resize Image".
• I myself, didn't change any of the various settings.
• Except for the "Width", which I typed in "2000", then clicked "OK"
• Then click, "File, Save As" and then I gave it a different name. (example "02-04_Garage.hdr" was renamed to "02-04_Garage_2K.hdr"

That's it, then just use the smaller HDR, it will work just great! (and the smaller version will use WAY less memory) In my experience, a 300mb HDR went down to 6mb. After you get a scene exactly where you want it, you can always THEN swap in a larger version of the same HDR (but, I myself, normally do not) I almost always use the an HDR that is just 2,000 or 4,000 pixels wide.

AS

"I think those hdri's must be too big for Bryce 7 on Windows 10 - Bryce keeps crashing when I try using them.

APOLOGIES! I forgot to mention in this forum about the freeware called "Picturenaught" - http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/ - Use this software to open, resize (smaller) and save out smaller copies of the HDR's. The Bryce scenefiles I have uploaded just use HDR's that are just 2,000 pixels wide. They originally are 15,000 pixels wide.

AS

www.kirkdunne.com/files/Import_04_c.zip

That's it! Keep Brycing!!!!