The box that Bryce 5 comes in says, "Image Editing Tools - Import 2D images from a variety of formats, tansform them into 3D objects, then incorporate them into your scenes" How do you do this?

Images can be imported into the Terrain Editor, then their grayscale values are used to create a 3D shape.

Stephen Ray

There's loads of ways to stick a 2D image into a 3D image. You can use it in the terrain editor, 2D picture, texture, bump map,..... The best thing to do is to get Real World Bryce 4. It's a book that explains more or less everything related to Bryce. Authors: Susan A. Kitchens & Victor Gavenda.

About Real World Bryce 4...I have Bryce 5? Do they have an updated book?

Not that I know of, it's a must have book if you want answers. There's only a few topics missing from it that relate to Br5.

Have heard conflicting reports, one says no update, one says one in the works. In the meantime, RWB4 contains much information, many tutorials, written well and easier to understand than the manuals, whether you are a beginner or an expert or somewhere in between, this book will help you. A lot. My copy goes on my bed, to my easy chair, to my computer table, wherever I am when I'm looking to learn something new. You can jump around in the chapters to the things you're most interested in, read it all in order, it is very versatile. And the color section in the middle has some fascinating work in it, too. Have never heard anyone who has it complain about it, except to wish it was updated. Worth hunting down. (You'd think I got royalties from sales of the book) :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

BTW, I've had to tape mine together at the spine, the pages are falling apart from wear, LOL!

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

It will be updated, some time in the future. Part of an e-mail from Susan Kitchens; "The other thing is I'm working on some additional booklets on Bryce for pdf purchase and download. On the DTE. Still in the works, I've got some web site infrastructure to get going on, too. So there's that to look forward to. : ) Thanks again for writing and I wish you swift renders, Susan"

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Also, here is a link to an example of 2d to 3d in my gallery. The sculpted object on the right was made from an old photo of my parents applied to a lattice object and painted on and messed with in general in the Terrain/Lattice object editor.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

Mostly you'll use the 2D to 3D process to make greyscale images in Photoshop or other 2D Editors, and bring them into Bryce.

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But, some real photos will work fairly well as a 3D object without much work.

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"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now"

You guys read BOOKS? Wow!

Available on Amazon for the Kindle E-Reader

All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

;)

Tjohn, AS, these are brill images. I would just like to say that I want tjohn to do a tutorial....please. 8) Catlin

Part 1

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

Part 2 Sorry if this seems a little scattershot, it's been a long day. Read the whole tutorial through before starting. If anything needs more details to comprehend, please say so. No sooner said than done. :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

Attached Link: http://www.interstellart.com/gtintro.htm

Please check out this tut that I posted several weeks ago. . . . . I hope it helps!

Thanks guys, it's like magic coming in here, first you make a wish and then as if by magic your wish is granted. Love this place. 8) Catlin BTW, I have tried doing this before but my results were nowhere near as good as yours tjohn. Must try harder.

catlin if you look in my gallery there are some tributes done using this method not everything translates well because of the colours and only work from the original angle.also try the invert button.

Thanks airflamesred I took a look at your images and I love the one of "Siouxie". What i would like to do is a terrain image of my parents wedding photo as a special something for my mums birthday. My dad died just over a year ago and mum misses him terribly so I thought that something like this would cheer her, but it's got to be perfect. So when I get started would you all mind if I occasionally asked stupid or obvious questions? Thanks for all your help.....8) Catlin