These mediterraneans tiles are quite hard to simulate IMO...while a texure can do the trick and fool the eyes for a distant house...polygons give the best result for closer range view, specially if you have the roof receive shadows(from a tree)...you'll prolly have to spend a lot of time aligning and cuting them so they cover the roof perfectly...you'll need accessories too for the top and the side to look right...I use to group all of them when they are conform to what i expect and make the group appear like a box, or else it slows the displays... The texture is just made with photoshop air brush and a lil use of the texure filter. Hope it helps, Ediolon

We all know how slow bryce can be...but it can be fast as a ferrari depending on the scene...I am using bryce on a daily basis for architectural renderings and i can swear that most of my renderings take less than two hours at 1024*768 (athlon 1900)..the pic above took less than one hour to render...just usin the sun to light the scene, render with regular AA...

Hummm...not much I can say...thx all for the nice comments..that is really rewarding. On the pic above, you'll see some of the stuffs I had to model...I used small pix found on the web as reference, but these might not be accurate. Objects are decently detailled but not really designed for close up , with the exception of the electric tester. I am planning to upload them as the free stuff as soon I'll find how, although i am not sure they will be of any use since they are so specific... Regards, Eidolon

PS: sorry for the poor english I am french.

iloveit Reminds me of some H.R.Giger airbrush work...nice piece

Surely 'cos this lil box has nuthin' to do with bryce

Hey!, first i wanna thx you all for the nice comments, i find them really rewarding. Aldaron : I intensively use the plop rendering but since this scene takes 24 hours to render (athlon 1900), even the smallest plop selection takes dozens of minutes. And, I am mainly focusing on the lighting for this scene so i need to have an overall feeling... Madmax : You are definately right about contrast, i think that is the main problem with this lighthing, I am already trying a render with more light comin fronm the windows, and thx for the pure white box tip , it clearly add some directionnal light feeling. Zhann, heheh, we make a point to have the garage cleaned and washed up every friday afternoon.... seriously, the place is way too much clean, but I just want to focus on lighting. AgentSmith : u are right! i plan to use some more saturated color for the body of the convertible, but i find it is easier to set the light with some white/grey objects, I might be wrong tho... Thx again .. I'll post next version sometime soon...

Mmmm thx for the comments This pix as been rendered in B5...no post work except the sig... Concernin the car body textures, i took screenies in B5, wifreframe front view and side view of the meshes i had to work on..and made textures with photoshop...(with the finger tool and the density tool...associated with different bruxh size).. The chrome texture is a bryce metal texture..I added some bump to simulate the "rusty chrome" effect.. The tire texture took me long to figure.so i used several map for the bump, diffuse and specularity (not much spec appearing tho).. i found the car plate somewhere on internet.. The car is from the bryce 2 CD and is a dataset from viewpoint... Weapons are from halflife and opposing force.. slightly modified and retextured, converted with 3Dexplore Sorry for the poor english I am french... Eidolon