Regardless of what som elawyer wrote to you in a letter. War of the Worlds by HG Wells is in the public domain. You can find the book listed on the Project Gutenberg website (http://www.promo.net/pg/), and if you have any further questions you can write them and I am sure they would be more then happy to answer anything for you.

Well, Im willing to give this one a go...I just wish that the requirment was nil! Nadda! I would really like to see what people can actually do without bringing a bunch of props in from somewhere else for a change. Doug in Houston

Okay, here's my vote... creations - 3 orbital- 2 chohole - 1

eyecon - 3 ICM - 2 claymor - 1

I must apologize. It wasn't Dragonbld, it was clay (long weekend and not enough coffee). Sorry. But here's the link: http://claygraphics.phase2.net/theshahnraproject.html Peace.

boblaprime, Since you think animation with Bryce is such a waste of time, I would check out Draginsbld's personal webpage (I can't find the link). I think you would be very surprised at what can be done with Bryce.

Oh yeah, first set the quality of your render. That would "Control Render Options" button. Then go to File>Render To Disk. A box pops up and in it you can set the size and the DPI. Just in case I do want to print, because I don't like to go back to re-render. My roommate got me in this habit of rendering everything at 3300x2200 pixels (I don't knw what the formula is, but basically, this is an 11x8.5). When you put in the 3300 for the bigger size though, Bryce automatially fills in the other boxes (except for the DPI). Then I put in 300 DPI. and click the check mark. Bryce will then ask you the file name you ant to use, where to save it, and the file type. I know it is a pain but if you think you're ever going to print it, just make it a TIF. I know you can convert a JPG to a TIF in PS afterwards, but from what I understand this degrades the image (kind of like when you make a copy of a copy of a video tape). Hope this helps. Happy rendering!!! Peace.

AS, you amazed me over in the Bryce forum, now you are continuing to do so here as well. Peace.

My only response to these people: If Bryce is so basic, why did they skip a head to a high end program before learning the basics? If they don't know these, how good could they really be with the programs they are using? Sounds more like they are upset at having spent $3500 so that they can produce something substandard instead of $99 to learn how to produce material of quality. I've been using Bryce for a couple of years, and there see,s to always be something to learn about it. Don't knock it until you try it.

So Dave (TheWanderer), I guess you would have to find out some of the specs of the machine you are having the material printed on. If it is large data printers or layout type printers, you could go with Dave's 1200 dpi, but most print shops don't produce enough work on these types pf machines to waarant them so your best bet would be 300 dpi for the rendering. It all depends upon what you are outputting too (my rommate does this professionally as well, and used to be on the Xerox design team - he's not a graphic designer, he designs printing presses and then works on/with them). You also need to take into consideration: how long do you want to wait for your computer to render your image. Increasing the image soze by adjusting the DPI in PS after rendering will only add to the DPI on the screen, not necessarily the image upon printing (this is why you need to know something about the machine being utilized - and also why TIF's are used insted of JPG's). Just remember, the image on your screen is an RGB image. The one you want to print is CMYK. On the new printing presses it converts everything to RGB for printing though, and this is where the image can become washed out. Again, find out what the specs are on the machine being utilized and that will make things a hell of a lot easier.

Actually, I wouldn't use Premium unless: 1) I was creating an animation and... 2) I was using Bryce Lightning Lord knows I want to be done sometime this century.

My roommate has worked at a print shop for years. If you are using Bryce 4 or ealier, then you need to render on the highest setting. He also recommends 300dpi and making it a tiff. Then when you send it off to print, make sure the file goes to the printing press in CMYK mode. The printing machine has built into it's program to convert it to RGB, but if you do it this way the colors come out closer to the CMYK and aren't washed out. If you are using Bryce 5, you only need to render on Super and not Premium. The reason for this is that the commercial machines, like a Xerox Docutech's, aren't able to discern the difference in the resolution you are trying to have it output (does this make sense?). Therefore, the only thing you will end up doing by using the Premium setting is increase you rendering time and the amount of time it takes for the printing press to process the file. The output between Super and Premium will basically be the same. However, if you are doing an animation and rendering to say a MOV file. This would be a different story altogether. In this case the video needs to be higher quality and this is where the Premium setting becomes handy. The Super setting can sometimes appear fuzzy after rendering, so use Premium for animations. Well, at least I learned something from hanging around in a print shop and down at the Xerox offices for a while :) Now if I can just get my renders up to snuff I'll be all set.

I would change it...I would really lighten up the sky and put the POV way back. Maybe make the clocks small (wristwatches perhaps) and don't make the guy look like he's struggling so much. If you do these things, then guarenteed some of the rest of us might have a chance this month LOL Peace.

I just received my copy of Vue yesterday. It renders somewhat different than Bryce does. Sometimes it can be quite obvios when an image has been rendered in Vue as opposed to Bryce. However, I see where the programs can compliment each other more than anything. The one thing I do like about Vue is it's similarity to LW, and that would be to having a few different camera angles on the screen at the same time (as well as a low res. render). As for the article mentioned in the previous post. As some people pointed out in the Bryce forum, the guy mentions in his article that he isn't as familiar with Bryce as he was with Vue. Many of the things he thought weren't possible in Bryce are, one just has to know what they are doing. Happy rendering!!!

I've been working on photography and water color painting. I'm not very good at either so nothing really to post. But I do get enjoyment out of it.