Cool find a head for it!!

I like the use of terrain in the background there as walls very interesting and something I would like to try in a future image. Try later in the day with long slanting shadows. I like to render with the true ambiance setting it makes for better shadows.

The Bryce gallery is quite large and a lot of peopel search by Genre. If you don't have a genre then your picture will not come up on a search. Just a bit of advice. I rarely ever get that many views and there is always the if it was made quickly it gets thehits if I toiled over it for weeks then it won't get a second glance.

Well my dog had a way abotu him that I will always remember. If someone was insulting or demeaning twords him he would set them right by a quick targeted urination.

Ok I'm game. I'm not a great organic modeller.

Ok I'll bite. I am downloading it now. I just picked up wings pretty good overall. I　will still use metaseqoia for some things that being a splind modeller . I will also get the manual.

Metaseqoia is a spline modeller and there is hamapatch and s patch out there. For a animation program that won't set you back much there is Hash. I also reccomend wings just got it loaded on my machine and it does soem amazing stuff. Amapi and Rhino are great modellers tat are lower cost too. But get wings first it rocks and there is a pdf manual that you can download too.

I always use photoshop and painter with UV mapper to texture I really don't like procedurals on my models. Usuing cubic mapping tends to give you too much unused space on yoru map. Try using a map from the Y axis don't split it. Then cut off the pieces that want to map from the Z axis. Set them aside. Remap the part you are mapping from the Y axis so it is split. Now you have a more workable map. I use layers in Photoshop and make lights with just a 4 pixel brush putting on dots or drwaing lines and deleting parts. Keep it in a different layer. Make the reast of yoru texture. Now after you have you texture ready open up your texture file in photoshop and hide all layers but the window layer. Set the color to black. You can use it as an ambience channel or as a transparency map and put soem lights inside.

I imagine the polys added up quickly on the imported bricks. I knwo from doing cattapillar treads that even the simplest models can really add to the poly count if there are many of them.

I woudl liek to see soem morph targets. So I can make soem different versions of the same mesh and then animate in Bryce. I did this in poser before. It was the coolest thing I ever did with it. Made a pteronadon and then made some versions with the tail one way the head one way the wings up and down and then made an animation with just morph targets. I do share yoru opinion on poser though. It has turned into a monster.

I'm impressed

Try clicking on the blob and not the sphere. The shpere icon is jut that a sphere. The blob next to it is the metaball modeler. It works fie for me. You can also set up mutiple textures on an object by assigning a different testure to each metaball.

That would send the polygon count way up.You could use the 2D tree picts in the create palate and do the same with that. You could even make your own using bryce and a paint program to se up an alpha channel. This is not somethingthat Bryce is good at. I used to use Natural scene designer on the mac when I wanted pics with lots of trees.

As far as the canopygoes. It is a combination of trans texture bump and reflectiveness maps. The bump map gives the illusion of the additional geometry.

Wow 158 meg. There is about 25 meg worth of textures on the above pic. There are diffusion and specular maps as well. A reflection map for the window little bitl like that. But that is what it takes to get it to the next level. I still try for soem level of efficiancy. Not game graphics level but more so that I can get things rendered while I am young.