lindans opened this issue on Jan 10, 2003 ยท 9 posts
lindans posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 5:41 AM
Can someone please give me a quick run down on how to use the clipping bracket in Bryce 5. Thanks
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tjohn posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 6:14 AM
If your talking about the clipping bracket in the terrain/lattice editor just click and drag the bottom of the bracket itself (not the gradient bar) up to clip at the bottom, click and drag the top of the bracket to clip at the top of your terrain. If you don't see the bracket, one of the icons at the top of the center image (view from the top) of the terrain will turn it on. I could illustrate this better with a screenshot, but I'm not home now. Maybe someone else will do that if this explanation isn't enough. Hope this helps.
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lindans posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 6:33 AM
Yes I think I see what you mean I was dragging on the gradient bar,and couldn't figure it out, will give it a try. thanks
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brycefreak posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 8:23 AM
DOH !! Thank you tjohn. I have been driven absolutely bonkers by gabbing the gradient bar for clipping and not getting any results. Every Tutorial I have ever tried where I have had to use the clipping bracket never worked (I thought I had a faulty version of B5)none of them have ever mentioned to grab the bracket itself and not the gradient bar. For some reason it never occured to me to grab the bracket. What's that saying "Cant see the forest for the trees" This is why I love this forum so much.
Aldaron posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 8:38 AM
You can also grab the top and bring it down. One use is to either clip the bottom or top, change the terrain and unclip and the part that was clipped off will stay with what you origiannly had. Useful in getting different terrain features on one terrain mesh.
Colette1 posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 9:38 AM
I thought mine was somehow broken too...LOL Thanks guys!
GROINGRINDER posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 10:31 AM
Great tip Aldaron.
pauljs75 posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 3:04 PM
Also if you haven't figured it out by now, it helps to use this with terrains set to "render as solid". That little pull-down arrow below the terrain editor window will have the setting there. Just in case you didn't know. Otherwise your stuff will be hollow (sometimes it might be intentional though.) Just my $0.02.
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tjohn posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 6:58 PM
Yeah, clipping at the top=instant volano if you leave it hollow. Only discovered this feature by accident myself long ago (was this feature in Bryce3D? Started with that version), I think my mouse slipped when I clicked accidently and pulled the clipping bracket down at the top. For a second I thought I broke something, then a little light came on in my head. :^) Has a Bryce manual been really readable? I mean, no offence, but the manuals have been a little hard to read straight through. Mostly I would think of something I wanted to try, try to think of what it might be called, then see if I could find it in the index. LOL
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