I am interested in creating a piece in the style of the 'Plein Air' painters. This image depicts a terrain with a swathe of a well-traveled path 'arc'ing through it, wherein the materials obviously change ... How would I do this in Bryce? And what is DTE? I keep hearing that bandied about... -Susan

DTE is the Deep Texture Editor, an evil and terrifying place.

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Ignore the shooty dog thing.

that is pretty amazing work actually...

It is a portion of an image by 'John Hilton' (1904-1983)... you could 'Google' him for more info... but now... How would I do this in Bryce (step by step) anyone know? And I love scary places so I'll have to visit this DTE world soon... but maybe with the guidance of Susan Kitchens or someone like that... Anyone know any good (Sherpa) guides into this realm? LOL! -S

oh wait.. that's NOT in bryce? and i thought it was with a PS filter applied :D

ROFL. That's when you know you've been brycing too long. Dementia.

that's doable in bryce though :D

I thought so... but HOW? Anyone know?

yeah, you create terrains, what's the problem? give me 5 minutes, i'lll try to whip up something similar

time's up... I want my money back... LOL!... no seriously I don't know how to do it... so that's the problem... I need a step by step... especially creating the path that arcs through the image... pretty please?

Message edited on: 08/24/2004 22:10

well this is what i could whip up, i'm not good with terrains, but the technique is extremely easy.

basically you make a terrain, you enter the editor and using the brush to the left on a very low altitude, you create a path through the terrain.

you add plants, textures, etc, and then it's up to how you work photoshop if you want to apply that same impressionistic-type look drac

Very good 'Tut'... thank you... -Susan

Or....Couldnt you create a negative terrain as the path,and boolean it onto a positive terrain?

Sounds great... and how is that done? -Susan

Attached Link: http://brycetech.daz3d.com/

susan, read your bryce manual or go to the many sites that have bryce tutorials online. one of the best ones for beginners is: brycetech.daz3d.com

all well and good... thanks for the advice... you've been extremely helpful... -Susan

it's rare :)

Bit more work and I could probably get it too.I think you will find it easy.This took about 5 mins.Shape it a bit more,add plants,use DTE to shape the road a bit more.You will get it.

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definately.

Attached Link: http://calyxa.best.vwh.net/~calyxa/pearl/tutor.html

I found these tutorials a great help in understanding how to mess around with levels in the terrain editor. Also a bit of a guided tour of the DTE

Aye, don't mix up the DTE with the Terrain editor, though, Susan... You could use one terrain, but then you'd have to get specifi with the Deep Texture Editor on an altitude level for the dusty trail, it might be too tedious. I'm saying go with a two-terrain method, it will give you more control over how they interact... I'll make you some screen shots of this method, if it seems cryptic, but the basics are : 1. Make your first terrain, sculpt it until it looks cool without regards to the road. Then, in the Terrain Editor still, sculpt your path by softly lowering it, stroke by stroke, until you have a depression like Drac's. 2. Duplicate your first terrain, then in the Terrain Editor invert it, so that the lower path-area you painted earlier is now the high part, with everything else now lower. 3. "Lower" your second Path-terrain in the Terrain Editor a bit, then use the clipping bracket on the right of the paint window to eliminate the land outside of your path. This will plant your path terrain directly where it needs to be, in relation to your first terrain. Use some erosion on each, play with it a bit until it looks right. Use two simple textures at first, maybe solid blue plastic for the regular ground and red plastic for the path terrain, it will help you visualize their interacionts when you render. Resize the path terrain vertically until it fits how you want it. 4. Now the two-terrain magic comes into play, as you can texture them separately! Tweak your textures, add some platns, and boom, perfect path... (If only it were that easy!) Hope this helps, otherwise it was a great typing warmup for me! Woohoo!

Woah! What a great tut this thread makes.....! Thankyou, Guys!

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Thats right...^^ You could even use 3 terrains. The settings in there you make the terrain at least 512,then play with the brush sizes and elevations. Similar to image here

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