I am attepting to soften my shadows. In Sky Lab I choose Sun and Moon Shadows and Soft Shadows. Each time I accept this the Soft Shadows button disappears and the shadows remain harsh. What am I doing wrong?

What version of Bryce are you using? I couldn't duplicate this with 5.5C, Mac or PC. There was a problem in 5.01 with SS not being saved with the file, so on reload the SS switch would load in the off position.

Bryce 5.01. Is anyone aware of a fix for this ? Bob

Nope, didn't get fixed until 5.5.

I have 5.0 as well. And yep, it refuses to hold the SS setting. But I did recently find a way to get around it. You need to open bryce. Go Right to the Sky settings and click the soft Shadow setting. Click OK, then SAVE the sky as a preset. Name it SS Base or something like that (Then reload that sky from the presets to make sure it is working as a SS.).

2. open your scene that you have the sky you want. Save your desired sky in the Temp Sky settings buttons. (the dots next to the sky globe).

3.Then OPEN the SS BASE sky. Add that to another Temp button (not sure if this is a must, but its how I stubled on it).

4. Then click the Temp button with your original Sky you wanted to have SS with and Right away go to the SKY LAB (the Cloud and Rainbow Icon). You should See the SS button selected already! Click OK and it should REMAIN on for now on.

A tip. Since SS really add to render time. for test rendering you can just take showdows down to 0 to speed things up.

Hope this helps and works for ya. I just tried it a couple times and it is still working for me.
This way you can make any sky you want SS now. Save em after if you want. It should remain a SS sky forever!
-Bruce

Message edited on: 01/14/2006 13:12

Message edited on: 01/14/2006 13:13

download the zenith rig in my freestuff and give it a whirl

Many thanks for the help. I am now able to make soft shadows. Bob