Well Done

It is never easy giving up drugs you have done really well

i gave up the drugs about 15 years ago and my life is better for it

may your 3D graphics be all the better for it.

Like the idea. Once the Formula One British Grand is over Then my attention will be all bryces providing no more technical problems

3 points   Ornlu

2 points Skiwillgee

1 point Paul Francis

Also check out my image which missed the deadline due to technical problems (damm computer)

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1233244

Love the image by Ornlu

I only wish that one day i can produce work to those guys standards

Thanx for all the ideas guys looks like i'm gonna be busy this weekend as i try all the different ideas Cheers

The following link has a free plugin for photoshop that will create forked lightning in photoshop or psp http://www.hirsch-design.de/plugin/al.zip heres a thought i will try it in bryce's terrain editor and see what happens hope the plugin helps Cheers pigat

From memory as i am not at my bryce computer Bryce tends to align objects along it's Z axis so either use a small null object hidden inside your model which your model is linked to, then move that object along the path or re-align your model outside of bryce say in 3Ds resave then it should align properly Hope this helps also hope my memory serves me well as it is a while since i had this problem Cheers pigat

Thanx bikermouse i will watch the forum with baited breath

It seems one fix is to import the 3Ds file into max then export it back out as a dxf when imported into bryce everything now seems to be fine, only snag bryce sometimes crashes during dxf imports but rerunning bryce is quicker than aligning the model.

As a Bryce 4 user not bryce 5 i would presume you would import the 3ds file which in Br4 is under the file menu after importing the file select the "E" button next to the object increase the smoothing slider and click the smoothing icon (sphere) then click the tick mark to exit now your 3ds file should not look quite so faceted I hope this gets you going.

Thanks clay i have been wonderin the same thing for ages

Thanks guys & gal i have found a free photoshop plugin called lighning maker by almathera which seems to be the answer i have posted an image to the gallery using it even though it still needs some work also thanks to yrtrouble2 for the objects just need some time to check them out

As a relative newbie to bryce i was looking for a explosion effect and came across this technique of yours but for some reason when i try it in bryce four all i end up with is a rarther distgusting off white blob at first i tried changing the cloud sphere's shading mode this made only a slight difference any ideas on where i am going wrong

I used the rock generator to create a engine flame using a blue volumetric flame texture the rock was duplicated enlarged slightly and a blue glow texture was applied to it i also added a small radial light with the same blue flame texture as a gel, the main rock with the fire texture was rotated during the animation plus the texture was also rotated and sized during the animation. Hope this helps