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Subject: Need good Bryce 5 book(s)!

tedbragg opened this issue on Jun 30, 2004 · 15 posts
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tedbragg ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 11:52 AM · edited Wed, 25 December 2024 at 2:50 PM

Just got Bryce 5 from Daz, and while it's fun to poke around, I need something better than the included tutorial and manual. Which books would be best? Main objectives: make fantasy scenes (big forests, towering trees, beautiful lighting effects), sci-fi space scenes, and making 3d logos out of illustrator EPS files...importing Poser figures (not scenes) with textures and conforms intact. TIA

tjohn ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 12:07 PM

The only book, really, and known around here as the "Bryce Bible": Real World Bryce4, by Susan A. Kitchens and Victor Gavenda. Nothing about trees or metaballs, but extensive coverage of everything else. Hey! Maybe now that there will be a Bryce 6, there will be a Real World Bryce6?

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AgentSmith ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 12:12 PM

With those needs... I would say online tutorials. Best Bryce book (no contest) is still "Real World Bryce 4". Nothing else comes close to telling you SO much. It IS the Bryce bible. Link to RWB4 at Amazon. They have new/used starting at $14.95 right now! (it's a $55.00 book) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201354381/qid=1088615437/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-1080662-9613768?v=glance&s=books

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danamo ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 12:41 PM

I would also recommend using the search function here at Bryce forum using keywords from the topics you mentioned. A lot of those categories have been covered in previous posts and threads.

Kathye ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 12:46 PM · edited Wed, 30 June 2004 at 12:47 PM

Attached Link: http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/BryceTuts/BryceTutSet.html

I started Bryce almost exactly a year ago and straight away bought Susan Kitchens book, even though my version is 5 and not 4. It's been a godsend, I'd not have managed without it.

For those things that are Bryce 5 specific though, apart from the multitude of online tutorials I've studied, I printed off Robin Wood's tutorials and they actually form pretty much a Bryce 5 manual. Susan Kitchens and Robin Wood alone provide enough material to study Bryce for a lifetime.

Above all, have fun learning :)

Kathy

Message edited on: 06/30/2004 12:47

pakled ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 5:34 PM

also check out the tutorials from Brycetech at Daz..it will tell you more than you ever wanted to know..but you'll be a better artist for it..;)

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Nukeboy ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 7:16 PM

Definitely "Real World Bryce" for the basics, Brycetech for some tree lab tuts, Peter Sharpe and Bill Munns plus any Google search.

Jacksmyname ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 8:28 PM

The Bryce 5 Handbook (Graphic Series) by R. Shamms Mortier Don't know how good it is though. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584502177/102-6315101-9053737?v=glance

TheBryster ( ) posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 8:45 PM
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tjohn ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2004 at 12:36 AM

If the Mortier book is anything like his others, buyer beware.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

mikeberg ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2004 at 8:17 AM

Please don't buy any book from shamms Mortier, it's full s...

elgyfu ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2004 at 1:17 PM

Here, here - though it can't possibly be as bad as the abysmal '3D Comic Design, totally crap.

Swade ( ) posted Thu, 01 July 2004 at 6:04 PM

R. Shamms Mortier book is crap and is no comparison to Susan Kitchens Real World Bryce 4. What ever you do.. don't buy that book by R. Shamms Mortier. Online tutorials are better than that book.

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Tirjasdyn ( ) posted Fri, 02 July 2004 at 2:35 PM

Yes the shamms book is horrible: His settings are continously wrong! He takes you through pointless steps that do absolutly nothing. His motto is minimalism... And if he sees this post he'll tell us it is our fault not his!

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BlueRose ( ) posted Fri, 02 July 2004 at 10:42 PM

Im a newbie and I have the Susan Kitchens Bryce Bible and am pleased I got it. Its helped me figure out lots of things and is full of info, some of which I will probably never understand but its there when i need it I recommend it and if you are a complete noob, these are the tuts i started out doing in private group, but they are now public http://www.mulawa.net/bryce/ these are REALLY good to get you started

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