I've always been a fan of carved stone. Bryce's terrain editor is an excellent tool for bringing these kind of images to life. With 3D you get real shadows and break those hard edges that often spoil images. Here is a terrain I made of the Maya lord Pakal's coffin lid from Palenque.

First I took the original image from a garden magazine that sold wall hangings. The original image was 411 x 310. This is important becauses unlike leonardo, every image used to make a terrain in bryce will be made square. To get the right scale ratio the terrain will have to be resized once it is made.

The image was small so I doubled it in paintshop and applied a gausian blur of 1 to take off the sharp edges and give me more room to work. Here is the finished color image.

I turned the image into a grayscale to make it easier to draw on. I filled all the low spots by hand with black using the paintcan tool at a tolerance of about 30%. Then I painted the last few stragglers with the brush tool. For most of the carving however I just left the natural shadows from the photograph. Here is the bump map.

Excellent tip! I'll file this away for future reference... This will come in handy when I get something that I need to be in relief on terrains.

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

I created a terrain then clicked on the E and opened the terrain editor. I went to the Pictures tab on the editing tools window and loaded the bump map. I clipped the top off but the edges .That's what the yellow slider on the right of the image does.It looked too square so I took most of it back out. If you do any clipping it will leave holes unless you check the solid tab on the terrain editor. To get to that menu click the down arrowhead on the top rithe of the terrain window.

Back in the bryce main window click on any of the  scale functions to bring up the 3D Transformations window type in the original sizes to make the object not square. for the depth start with about 5% then play with the scale tool till it looks right.

Hey, it's an ancient astronaut! (von Daniken lives :) )

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

This was what originally drew me to Bryce way back at Ver.2. There was an Imagine artist who, like Bryster, *heh heh heh *abandonded ship early and went over to Bryce who built a horse just like this, also a fully detailed suit of armour....can't remember his name but this is indeed a strength of Bryce especially with the symetrical terrain.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

...can't remember his name...

was it Bill Munns?

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Nope ...something like Alejandro or something...it'll come to me eventually.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Simon F. C. Rivaz was the dudes name but all the links I found were duds.. ...

EDIT
Plus this bit of info...all links dead btw.....

A Applique - creating a horse object- HTML page and graphics included

• ftp directory - download all tutorials
• A must see tutorial

Simon Fraser Chevalley de RivazRivazCorp

If anyone has a fix on this dude a contact would be appreciated as he as I recall was a master of this technique which would work very well in Bryce, any version.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Bobby, the link you gave is an ftp link and am getting error (Error 550 Fail to change directory).  Either the directory no longer exist or you got a dud link. (A Applique - creating a horse object)

Bummer

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Like I said in my post...bolding added now:

*Plus this bit of info...all links dead btw.....

*I am mainly curious if anyone actually knows this person is all.. ...:unsure:

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Oh okay... Gotcha! :blushing:

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Graphics developer: http://www.curvy3d.com/

Galleries:
http://www.elfwood.com/art/s/i/simon/simon.html
http://simoncvy.cgsociety.org/gallery/

Friends don't let friends use booleans.

many thanks dvlenk6, I'd have never thought to look there with my aversion to elves...a bit of an ogre myself...LOL.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again