ummm.... why would you use an image instead of lights to light your scene?

thank you...

um.... its a miracle... if you look closely enough, you can see elvis' face in the smoke!

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!!!

he gets me all teary eyed... im a little veclemped... oh what the hell.... LETS STONE HIM ANYWAY!!! :)

look at how messy you are! and cigarettes right in front of your "beloved"... have you no shame!!! um........ whats in that plastic "liddie" on the left eh?!?

.... guess we cant stone him, and so forth... for now anyways.... :)

so have we stoned him, tarred and feathered him, poured boiling honey over him in front of an ant colony, while his nails were pulled off with a red hot wrench, while we poured salt over his open wounds, while we scrubbed his scars with soapy brillo pads, while we............... um, so have we yet? (ill start heating the stones, so theyre nice and hot when we begin the tossing...) no, im just kidding........ the honey doesnt have to be boiling.... :)

... and it doesnt need to look "real" to look "good"...

im kinda new here but i am seriously offended. i actually like the way bryce "renders". are my tastes then considered "cheap and plastic"?!? from what ive seen so far, it doesnt matter what program you use. it seems the only limitation with ANY of the programs is the users level of creativity and imagination...

as goldmember would say... "he has toight clothes and a toight body yes?!?"... :)

you are far too kind sir!

it was kinda hard to follow, but as im new at this, ill let myself off easy :) it wasnt until i scaled up the grouped objects that you could actually make out a waterfall/river scene... so im left to believe its a scale issue im having.... it also never dawned on me to "raise" the water plane... one more thing. the default view... its called the director camera. is this camera supposed to mimic an average persons visual scope?!? meaning, is it set up to be as if you are looking out from an averages persons head? it sounds silly, but it does make a difference. (as opposed to looking out from an ants visual scope, hence the reason to enlarge items...) even better, are we supposed to switch to the other camera, and use that as our "eye"... thanks again people, all the help is REALLY appreciated.

maybe its on the content cd? i havent messed w/ that much, so let me check there... thanks