Greetings all, I'm at a point with my renders now where I feel I have exhausted my resources. So now I am seeking the advice of others to try to learn newer and better ways of doing things. Lots of ideas in my mind, but the skills to put them into electronic form so all may see is becoming ever more challenging with the complexity for each idea. This is my first attempt using the forum to expand and learn. One quick question for now, just to get my feet wet here.... I have this one work-in-progress of a floating castle. It's in the air and there's mountains all around, but it's lacking. I've placed birds but gut feeling says it would look better with some flying dragons. I see dragons used in many people's work and it puzzles me where they came from. Any direction obtaining flying dragons? Or am I faced to paint them in during postwork? I have other questions--Bryce mechanics--but I think I might find answers in the Bryce manual, so I'll read that before troubling anyone with them. Thanks! --Andre (Death_at_Midnight)

Easiest, but not the cheapest, way of adding dragons (or people, animals, etc.) is to get the program called Poser. The Millenium Dragon from DAZ is quite good, with a ton of morphs/poses/textures. Stuff created in Poser can then be imported into your Bryce scenes, as a 3D object, and rendered.

Lacking that, take a look around on the net for free models. The ones that will be of most use to you (meaning least hassle to import and texture) will come in 3DS, OBJ, and DXF formats, even though Bryce can import many different formats. The only drawback is that these types of models are not generally posable.

Sorry if this explaination is somewhat vague. Maybe someone else here can further illuminate what the hell I'm talking about. ;)

This is where most people go straight for their copy of Poser and any of the Dragons they've downloaded from tthe likes of Daz/Zygote etc.Then it's a case of set it up the way you want it,Export an Obj file and import the Obj into Bryce. There are a quantity of Dragons arround as freebies but the poses tend to be a bit Basic I'm sorry to say.

Rats! I've got access to Poser, but only found a Raptor model. I keep seeing people credit models and objects from a wealth of sources, like DAZ... which leads me to believe these are addons. Hrm. I'm wondering if I can manipulate that Raptor into a dragon and add wings via terrain object. I'm afraid I'm not very great with Poser, but practise makes perfect. Thanks for the advice, all! --Andre (Death_at_Midnight)

Valander used to have an excellent land dragon for download in the Poser freestuff here at renderosity. There are also various dragon wings for download. Search the Poser freestuff area using Valander in the search by artist field. You could also search using "Dragon".

http://www.dragool.com/val1.html is where you have Valandar's Land Dragon and wings for it. Heh. A crosspost with GG. :-) There were other free dragons, like the Millenium Dragon LE at DAZ or Sixus1 Water Dragon in a magazine. So scan the sites and magazines for future freebies.

Message edited on: 07/14/2004 15:12

-- erlik

Have you ever thought about modeling one? Wings had a dragon challenge a couple of months ago, in fact. There were a variety of dragons, some basic and some more elaborate. Maybe you could start learning Wings or Nendo or some other modeler that isn't sub-divisions surfaces. Maybe even venture into the world of NURBS. Just a thought.

Attached Link: http://www.petersharpe.com/Tutorials.htm

Peter Sharp has a good tut on creating Wings (it's titled Bat an fairy wings, but it'll work with dragons too), you can perform miracles with Bryce Lattices....

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