I hope this "tut" is ok for you all, It's the best and fastest way I found to make some good looking material explosions in bryce. I've made this tut with many image as my language is not really improved for technicals explanations Cheers!

the final render

The only thing missing is a matrix-like bullet trail.. Great tutorial. The results are awesome.

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Thanks for the tute! Makes for a great effect.

Thanks for the technique, pidjy. Flak wanders off wondering how to get an explosion into his next pic

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Rayraz: Maybe my eyes aren't what they once were, but I see a bullet trail in the second pic. Nice tut, pidjy.

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Thanks Pidjy, Great tutorial! Yeah I see it too tjohn.

Whoa! Thanks a lot of many thanks again! Ah, almost forgot: thanks. :) Stefano

tjohn, There's a bullet trail alright, but it doesn't have the matrix-effect. Don't get me wrong Pidjy's tut uses a very cool technique with impressive results.

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Oops, I hope the king-size image collection doesn't make this sound like a personal offence towards tjohn, because it isn't. I just couldn't resist posting some screenshot's from my favorite movie 8)

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no problem Rayraz! LOL.. it's an explosion effect tut.. maybe my next tutorial will be the matrix bullet trail fx! .. :-p

Thks pidjy....saved that tutorial...great effect.

Excellent tut pidjy you'll have us all exploding all over the place. Now there's an idea exploding people in the terrain editor with the Matrix bullet effect. ;P Catlin

Thank you for sharing this great effect...can't wait to try it out!!! Chris

Nice job. Thanks for the tut.

Sweet. Now, I can blow things up without getting in trouble from my Lt.

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Rayraz: I'm not sure what might have offended me, so I guess that means I'm not offended. :^) As many times as I've seen the Matrix, I'd forgotten that they used a special digital effect for the bullet trails when Neo goes into "Bullet Time". Pidjy's effect actually looks more realistic, doesn't it.? It looks like the Matrix effect could be easy to do with a glass texture on a flattened sphere and then multireplicate to a path (easier said than done, and a b*tch to render, LOL). Hey, isn't that our AgentSmith in the middle left screenshot from the movie? :^) Tjohn

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Awesome work, one the explosion...! Tedious, but I suppose with some experimentation you might even be able to animate it!

Great tut Pidjy, thanks.

Tjohn, AS is in the bottom-left corner. The middle left one is another (Nameless?) agent. BTW did you know AS has a whole army of clones of himself? Check out the new superbowl-trailer to watch Neo in some Major AS-kicking (Sorry Agen Smith. LOL). It only shows a few seconds, but with a cool 'time-frozen' part.

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Here's some screenshots of it...

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LOL excellent!!!!!!!!! what a laught!!! thinking of (our) agent smith cloning himself

I can't wait untill the release of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. I think I saw The Matrix more then 20 times LOL.

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Well if Agent Smith cloned himself there'd be one of him for every one of us right? o.O