Attached Link: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/

From what I have seen in the new Bryce 5 if a DOF (depth of field is used with a small factor on the "Rays Per Pixel" it can produce a grainy type of effect, although I think it looks more "splotchy" than grainy and it doesn't look very good in my opinion. But, I think what you are really refering to is done in Photoshop, PSP, etc. It can reproduce a film grain, like in black & white photo's.

Save your project, and restart the program. I believe that is the only way. Anyone else?

Wicked! I'm a big fan of any Dragon. Looks pretty knarly so far, best of luck, it's a difficult model.

Yeah, make sure your sky isn't set to be volumetric, or at least reduce the settings for it drastically (done in the sky lab). That simple pic of that size shouldn't have taken that long at all. Or, perhaps it is your render settings, I've heard Bryce 5 has some computer-crippling high-end settings. I don't have Bryce 5 (I assume that is what you are using) BUT...I DO have an almost obsolete-slow-butt speed computer and I do much more complex scenes in way less time. The only time I took 24 hours to render was a 45Mb .br4 file with 200 objects in it.

Uh...quick question. WHAT was it you downloaded so we may avoid that particular pitfall?

Nope, tried that. I can pick just the 4th channel and pick a bump, but then it STILL will not allow me to choose all 4. I can pick up to 3 (A,B,C) but not D. It's weird. I have picked all 4 before with other textures, this one is just being difficult. I'm going to have to re-build the texture, doing all 4 at once, maybe that will get past this glitch in the matrix. Agent Smith

Not to worry, I'm sure he will, yours was the first one posted. Whatever schedule you need Ken is fine (by me at least). Agent Smith

117 Megabyte .obj!? What the heck was it? A model of the entire planet earth and all that it contains?

I use Amorphium and Bryce together with no problem. I suggest using .obj export out of Amorphium and into Bryce. That's all I ever really use. Bryce seems to balk at some .3ds files, but loves all .obj's. Other than that...this wouldn't happen to be the full free copy of Amorphium that came with some 3D magazine as of late is it? If so, I have heard there are some bugs with it. Check the Amorphium forum for that, I think they have been posting about it. Agent Smith

I'll post some other pics of the glasses I did earlier after this challenge is completely over. And, yeah I'll have to stick them on some Icabod-Poser look-a-like for fun at some point.

LOL! I love it! What kinda fruit does it yield? Or is it nuts? The Bryce 5 Tree Lab cannot be denied.

I would have liked to gone with the "what if" type scene myself BUT...kinda fell into the same scenario, wanted to be able to finish what I originally wanted to go with, so I had to scale down my idea. I love gadjets and mechanical type things, so I went with that. I got to come up with this month's challenge in the first place, you would think I would have a time advantage...I still spun my mental wheels for about a week.

Why try? So you can aspire to do things as good as Rustboy, that's why. The only reason I got started in 3D at all was Poser and the only reason I got into Bryce was "Hobbit" (Andy Simmons), after seeing his work with Bryce I was inspired and obsessed with doing as well as I could with Bryce and Poser. Amazing examples makes great inspiration. I may not be as good as "Hobbit" (and Rustboy)...but give me time...;o) That's why.

Then you haven't read the original thread I wrote on this month's challenge... "And, even better, from a movie we know...show us a scene that WASN'T in the movie, but you wished it was...USE your favorite scene(s), DON'T just DUPLICATE it. Think about that scene, and ask "what if...?", or "why not?" With Bryce you really are the director, show us what YOU want and like". With the VAST amount of movies and themes anyone could find something they wanted to make a pic of, including a cityscape...so go let your imagination run riot.