I've always wanted to be able to do a tree scene like yours, looks very good so far.
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nice tree..can we change the star though?

*nice tree..can we change the star though?

*I made it big for the tree that way to give it a home tree look..   not a picture perfect tree....  I'm struggling with the light bulbs and wires..   Bryce  doesn't make it easy to build a zigzag wire and bulbs out of meta balls and it natural objects...

Hey, the Christmas ball mats finally come in handy!

You might want to boolean out the very top of the tree where the branches are sticking out through the star.  For the wire, maybe try using lots of little terrains instead of metaballs?  With some clever booleaning with spheres and cylinders you can get them to look curved, and you can hide seams behind branches :)

Edit: actually, no, booleaning the terrains wouldn't be necessary, hanging strings only curve in 2 dimensions, not 3.  Do each hanging loop as a separate terrain.  Just come up with several different terrains and resize and reuse to fit different gaps between branches.

*Edit: actually, no, booleaning the terrains wouldn't be necessary, hanging strings only curve in 2 dimensions, not 3.  Do each hanging loop as a separate terrain.  Just come up with several different terrains and resize and reuse to fit different gaps between branches.

*Not sure I understand how to use terrains in that way....  but i'm working on it...
Actually, I could go by doing mats with alfa channels...  I can draw some light wire loops and place them on the branches..  lighting them will be some task....

There are no branches sticking out.. I think you are looking at reflection off the shiny silver star holder..  I put on a larger image..  I need to render one...

Create a lattice object and draw something like this in the terrain lab (or in photoshop, or use this).  Then make it really thin in y (2 or so, maybe).  Rotate, resize, and translate until you have the ends at 2 branches (openGL view helps a lot with this).

(Or you could just get blender and use paths!  cough haven't seen ysvry around in a while, someone had to say it ;) )

Anybody know if this tree is uvmapped?  It's just begging for a decent pine needle material, bet it would look really good....

Well the purpose was to solely use Bryce...   That lattice rope is great,,,,   Otherwise I could use a 3D program to create wire and bulbs,,,,,    I might just create bulbs and forgo the wire...

hey I could use candles........!   As long as you don't tell the fire department,,,,,

Thank you Ang25 for the offer

Quote - Well the purpose was to solely use Bryce...

I'm not sure what you were referring to, my tree is 100 % Bryce. It's alright if you don't want it, just wanted to mention that its bryce.

*I'm not sure what you were referring to, my tree is 100 % Bryce. It's alright if you don't want it, just wanted to mention that its bryce.

Oh no, I was not refering to your tree at all...     I like your tree..  It was done in Bryce's tree lab...