could anyone tell me how i can either make a fluted colomn or find i previously made model for bryce?

In Bryce create a central cylinder object and place the desired number of smaller cylinders around the perimeter so that they will cut into the central one the desired amount. These smaller cylinders are then negative booleaned and the resulting first cylinder will appear fluted - I hope!

Another way to do it is to boolean together a cone and a cylindar.

Or you could use Windows Paint , if you have no other 2D package , and make the shape of the column from the top view then import it as a greyscale and extract the shape as a lattice. This way you only have one object to deal with. My 2 pennies. BTW the best way to accomplish this is make a large circle then use a smaller circle to 'paint out' the fluted edges. Late!

ok guys thanx for the help i'll give it a shot and see what i come up with

Hi, if you click onto the small triangle, next to "Create", then there should already be such a column, in section Boolean Objects. At least, in my Bryce4. Besides of that, I also would suggest to extrude a terrain with the column-cross-section as picture. Hubert

The one that comes with bryce isn't fluted.

Hi, you got any example-pic/link for "fluted"?? I didnt/dont know that exact expression and suggested only according to buddhas explanation. That thingie in Bryce4 is built of Booleans, like buddha described. But it doesnt seem "fluted"? Now, I am interested, how a fluted anything loooks like! ;-) Hubert

Just look at pics of the Greek Parthenon. Do a search for it or the Acropolis and the columns used are fluted.

Hi, well, I still consider that BR4-boolean object a fluted column! :-) According to my Websters (could now look it up at home), its about vertical parallel grooves. Like that column-object in BR4 - Create - Boolean: "Grego/Roman column piece". :-? Besides, I cannot tell Greek from Roman buildings. Just searched the Web and found some photos on "fluted columns": http://www.dragonridge.com/greece/classical_architecture.htm and that looks like "my" BR4 object. Dont get me wrong, I dont want to start a flame-war about "fluted", I only want to know the difference to that BR4-object. Hubert-the-flutebert

I agree with Hubert. The one in Bryce is fluted, and is called 'traditional Greco/Roman column piece'

Hi Raven, many thanks for the approval and that example! I owe you one for that, better, make it a "10". Nah, better only a Zooh-5, for the boring ground-texture! (LOL, me only kidding!!) :-D Cheers, Hubert