and for the next challenge.

Exiled

Create a scene in bryce depicting the theme around being exiled. Either by choice or by force. Try and render what is like being in exile.

Have fun

Alex,

thanks to all who voted for me.

For those who want to know the cave/rocks texture i used can be found under stones/rocks/vein2 in the materials screen.

Just increase the bump setting to your liking!

thanks again...

Alex,

as for developers,

They should talk with Intel or Amd about some promotions and get some dev help back from them.

I pay good money to see Bryce promoted as "It work best on an AMD system or Intel" without these two companies we wouldnt have any rendering!

They always promoting Daz "works best with Nvidia" so why not the big boys?.

Al,

Well,

The problem that brycers (us!) got is that Daz makes money out of content for DazStudio. Having taken over Carrara doesnt help us either. Im sure its a great application but it still competes with Bryce.

If i were Daz i would streamline Bryce a bit more. Get rid of animation and/or modelling and concentrate more on rendering option and optimizations.  I would happily pay $200 for Bryce if it had some render upgrades and more format import options added.

Promotions is also an issue. They do an excellent job with studio but when V6 came out it was all about the "fantasy enviroments" and a lot of landscapes examples.  As i was saying on a thread at 3dc, Every year theres a competition or two out there for Bryce which included 20+ categories.

Just reading the description on 3d world magazine issue 102 quick reference keyboard guide says it all....

Bryce: ...affordable software for creating realistic landscape imagery
Carrara: ... Daz 3d figure posing, modelling, landscape design, physics , animation and rendering apllication.

Thats just a joke. How many oustanding abstracts are done in bryce actually use a terrain? or have you seen a nice looking big chested girl render on a mountain? no.

Why does Daz not promote such other excellent uses of the program as opposed to say to people "look how you can render a pretty mountain" ? 

I guess there is a reason why you can go to Daz from within Bryce but you cant go to Bryce from within Daz!

Thank Flak for the passing it on. I thin we should form the "Council of Bryce Elders" and tell Daz excactly how to promote Bryce.

A lot of members do a hell of a lot to promote Bryce as everything other than a landscape program but Daz never says thank you cause you havent rendered an Aiko or Victoria....

Alex,

ROLOF Orbital!,

Too funny, needed that. :)

Well erosiaart, a while back i rendered a few samples to help folks see for themselfs.  

If you click on the link below, you see a few RPP settings and what effect they have on a scene.

www.alexpensotti.com/images/raystut.html

(Please note there is some nudity in one of the images!)

The tut  is a bit old in the tooth (bryce 5), thanks to bryce 6 and my dual core AMD i can render at 64RPP on most scenes without any extra time penalty.

Hope it helps,

alex,

Analog-x,

Zip updated......final render included at the end.

Regards,
Al

i remember using the "old" sandbox from the first engine and this version looks awesome!

Best bit has to be the real time material shader editor.

It be nice to see Bryce 8 witha real time lighting editor. :)

Attached Link: Bryce 6 Benchmarks

Check out the link and scroll through, those INTEL chips look good!

Alex,

well i've tried it several times and i "think" Bryce 6.1 displays the single core render time on the taskbar and the dual core inside Bryce window.

lolol

ohh well!

:lol:

The render time was soooo fast that poor old taskbar couldnt keep up with the percentage completed.

See pic!.  The pop up screen for this render was always 30-40% ahead of the taskbar results at the bottom.

:)

Hey isnt that the rock/scene from 007's  "For your Eyes Only".  St. Cyrils i think.

:blink:

Attached Link: Bryce 6 Benchmark

You know you want to beat the intel Quad up the top!!

yeah, "External Nuclear Power Supply" might be required.

:O

Cool.