sup y'all? i was wondering how you go about using a photo for a sky, or background. i got some nice sky photos from free stuff, and they were represented as being able to be used as a bryce sky. So what would you suggest?

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http://www.pinhead.robbes.com/tutorial/bryce4_sky/Combinationsky1.htm

http://www.pinhead.robbes.com/tutorial/bryce4_sky/Combinationsky2.htm

I've just been putting a huge 2D plane behind everything and putting a picture of clouds on it...it's been working like a charm. MD

I used the cumulus plugin from FlamingPear to make a cloud scene and pasted it onto a 2d square for that Seagull image I did. It turned out pretty good I think. 8) Catlin

Yeh I used to create a similair background sky to that of the pic Iwanted to use. Then I rendered the scene in Bryce, opened up Photoshop and dragged the Sky image on to the render as a layer. From there I would magnetic lasso any objects that show above the horizon and erase the sky image layer. After that I would tweak opacity and other adjustments to blend together to get the result I was happy with. Hers an example: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=329745&Start=55&Artist=orbital&ByArtist=Yes This version has an error on it, look at the white tower on your right and you can see I forgot to erase the sky image layer from it compared to the same tower just to the left. What a dozy Bollock I am sometimes!

Go take a look at Roobool's tut linked above: his method grants some better results than a simple 2D plane, IMO. And it's quite easy to grasp. S.