I am new to Bryce and I got it t=mainly to try and create some photorelistc skies. I have not had enough time ot play around with it yet, but I am wondering if this is the best program to create clouds? It does not look like you can create really puffy stormy clouds. Can you? Is the rendering of enough quality to be able to drop in a sky I created wiht Bryce into a photo that would be printed at 300 dpi 11"x17"? How does Bryce compare the the Aurora plugin that Digital Elements makes?

Strangely enough I always thought aurora's skies looked suspiciously liked Bryce's or even Vue's. To make puffy clouds you will need to apply volumetric materials to spheres. It's best to make really, really, big sphere, and then take the camera back. AgentSmith

I use a lot of volumetric clouds in my work, and think Bryce is more than capable of achieving good results. I use several large spheres and to create the desired effect. When placing them make sure they are not touching one another otherwise it can affect the quality of the mat making nasty lines etc.

If you use the "render to disk" option you can also set the dpi of the image, so no problems regarding printing. One little hint, Bryce can do more than skyes...

woops..did I miss the point?..;) yeah, volume mats 'n spheres is a plan..

Thanks guys. One more question. I need to be able to place a photo I have (which has a mask knocking out the sky) and place this into Bryce. I want to be able to see this picture so that I can be able to determine what type of sky I want to create. The thing is, I only have 3 day to do this. I started to read the manual, so I have a basic understanding of what all of the buttons do. But I dod not have time to go through the whole thing. Can some one give me a step by step in how to do this? From inportiing image to actaull setting it up to render out. I did read that I can work at a loweer res, the output atr a higher res. What is the bvesat res to do this at? I do not need to creat a real stormy sky for this, so I would just like to be able to creaet a cool sunset with some whispy clouds. Thanks again, Steve

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Or, it might be Post #8 for you.