Forum: Bryce


Subject: Help- I need Ideas for better atmosphere effects please!

clyde236 opened this issue on Dec 09, 2004 ยท 7 posts


clyde236 posted Thu, 09 December 2004 at 2:58 AM

Hi All, I've seen some really great atmosphere effects here in Bryce 5 by some of you, so I am asking (begging?) for some tips here. The image I have made is part of a challenge from a friend of mine. She wanted to see if I could do an architectural image in Bryce 5 of a Cloister. My image doesn't look very photorealistic in spite of my attempts at lighting. I used the tricks from my tutorial "Bryce Lighting FX" which have worked in indoor scenes, but I am not that good with outdoor scenes. I thought I might get around the issue by generating some atmosphere. I was going for a night scene during a really foggy misty rainstorm. I used haze in the Sky Lab because fog just didn't look right. But the haze tends to make the image look washed out. I made the stone floor reflective (I couldn't get specularity to make it look like the floor was wet and the reflection makes it look too glassy) to imply that it was soaked by the mist. I took the rendered image into Photoshop and made raindrops on a new layer and faded the layer way back so it was just a suggestion of rain. What would any of you do to achieve the effect I am going for? I think I am close, but it does look a bit like a cartoon to me. I KNOW Bryce 5 can do what I want. If I could figure a way to do it! I've have seen some spectacular images by you all in Bryce 5 that have great atmospheric effects. I am sure this is a complete study in itself! Thanks for your suggestions and help! Best to all!