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Bryce F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Jan 04 3:16 am)
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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...
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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
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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
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When you have finished painting what you wanted selected, click on Edit in Standard Mode or the Quick Mask Mode to exit and see your selection surrounded by “marching ants”.
The end...
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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
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I'm not sure what to do with it next - I think that the two dips would need to be selected and so would the words... but they are different levels to the diamonds so what do I do with them?
AS's Gate thingie mentioned different greys but how do you know just HOW different these greys should be?
Do I get out of quick mask now or do I continue selecting?
Help?
Well I've saved the image - hoping that quickmask is saved with it! as it's twenty to 2 in the morning and boiling hot here, I'm gonna try for a bit of sleep. With the heat I wouldn't but I'm completely bushed after spending 4 1/2 hours re-sorting out the UV map for a cable - deadly stuff! (and it didn't work)
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Well, you could come out of the quick mask mode and go to Select -> Save Selection.
Make sure you have New Channel clicked in and you write in a new name to save your selection in. Then you will know you have save you selection to a new channel.
Then you can go back and "paint" the dip and save that to another channel.
I know what you mean weatherwise. In a couple of months it will be dog's days of August, hot, muggy, sticky weather and that means high electric bill in September, October and November.
UGH!!!
TS
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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...
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Yeh yeh, already done the save selection bit last night, I'm about to start painting the dips and then the text - what I need to know is what to do with the dratted things.
Why a huge electric bill in September, October and November?
And if it's gonna be hotter in August - I'll die! Nooooooooo!
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Sent you sitemail.
You could copy and paste to separate layer each set of the selections and then if you'll really adventurous, you could overlay with a varying shade of greyness depending on how deep you want it to be... Remember white is very tall, black is empty, grey and various shade of greyness are different heights/depths in the terrain editor.
As for the bill, because It really doesn't start cooling off til after October and the billing cycle for the months are always 2 months ahead. Creepy when you live in New York City and have to pay a company with the word ,"Con" in its name.... Please, don't get me started... :lol:
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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
Copy and paste selections to separate layers? Okay.... um.... should these layers also have the drain image in them, or is it okay to leave that on the background only?
Oh greyness, well I've already asked AgentSmith about what he does on that - I'm just awaiting a reply, if he's not busy.
"Please, don't get me started... "
Ah, I see, and I know that feeling, been there, done that, do NOT want a T shirt!
Thanks for all your help, I really feel I'm getting closer now...
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2615494
On the topic of greyness see link above for Brycian explanation. Fig. 1 is a 3/4 side view of fig. 2. Fig. 3 is same as fig. 2 without the text numbers on it (best if you zoom in on image).Thanks, Quest, That will give me a visual guide to how to best use the grey shades.
TS
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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
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I've got a question about this quick mask:-
Is it possible to tell PhotoShop to just paint the red in fully red? So that if want to select the thing I just masked, it will select it properly, and not mostly faint with tiny patches of full opacity???
At the moment I have to keep on going over it 6 or 7 times just to be sure it got everything.
Help?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
You would need to set the brush hardness to 100 % and the opacity of the "paint to 100 % and the flow too. Check the top bar menu where it says opacity and flow. Those 2 need to be set to 100% not 25 or whatever default number they have it at.
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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
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Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
What else could it be?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Maybe it would be better if you set the diameter of the brush a little bigger like maybe a 5 or 6 or even a 9 ???
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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
But if I do that I can't paint into the tiny text, I need a small brush or I over run all the text.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Is this right?
Now here I still have the very edges of the drain, that sort of lip edge thing, not painted - do I paint that too?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
It's up to you. Use your best judgment. But so far it looks fine. Remember the different shade of greys represent the different heights. So judging from the looks of this I had say you got it down right.
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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'm fairly sure I have the contrasts right, ie darker means lower, lighter means higher (and that's thanks to Quest's nice demo diagram in that old thread of his) - but whether I have the amounts right... I can't tell yet, my total inexperience here has me saying -
"I dunno, don't ask me, I ain't got a clue!"
I mean those dips.... they look awful dark to me, and anyway dips are rounded in their depth, not just straight down as here...
I wish there was some way to put a gradient on the dips.
There isn't is there???
Or is there?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Yes, but you will have to experiment with them... Select 2 or 3 shades of grey, each progressively darker than the previous one and try using either radial or linear direction and see what happens.
Fun, ain't it.???
:b_grin:
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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
Just thought of something. When you try this experiment, try shrinking the selection and applying the next darker shade of grey from the top.and then do a slight gaussin blur. Don't know if that would work better than the gradient but try it and see what happens.
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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'm still trying to get the right gradient, I'm currently looking in the help - now that shows how desperate I am don't it? Lol!
And I'm not understanding it (as usual) - why is this so hard? Gradients used to be really easy - or was that in PaintShopPro?
I want a circular (ellipse actually but I know that'll be asking for the moon) gradient going from my current background colour to my current foreground colour (having already chosen my greys), cos I don't like the only gradients in the presets (there are about 4 up there) and the closest seems to be a diamond shape - which is total rubbish.
Arrrgggghhhhhh!
Beastly instructions on help are telling me to use New Adjustment Layer / gradient map - it's h£lll!!!! Terrible!
It can't be that one.
....
What the heck is an "Options Bar"?????
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Okay... I see another mini tut coming... It will have to wait til I get back from PT today. I'll work on it while dinner is in the oven and post it up hopefully later tonight. Don't wait up, tho. LOL
Oh, goody, more screen caps! :b_tonguewink:
TS
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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
Well... you said you hoped you'd never have to go through that again... oops!
Still, practice makes perfect. Lol!
It's been quite a while since I made a tutorial, I've been wondering about video... but then I don't much like following video tuts and much prefer text and screen cap ones - it's so much easier to refer back to a small part of a text tut, rather than having to wade through a huge video just to find out the one thing you need. So I guess I shouldn't think of making a video tut, but just text and images ones.
Hmmm...
Anyway, I'm going to keep trying to do this stupid gradient until I either figure it out or you can help me - or anyone really - as the song says - "Something's gotta give"
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
I'm not sure.... is this better or not?
It looks fuzzy close too and AS's didn't - so something's not working yet.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Did you smooth out the noises in the original image before you added your grey shade???
You have to remember to make it metallic too as well and drop the bumps down a tad bit...
About those gradients, in the next set of replies following this I will attempt to explain the workings of making a gradients and option bar, etc.
Stay tuned.
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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
Click the gradient bar in the menu bar (see above image)
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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
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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
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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
Go back and select the gradient tool.
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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
Place it so that it is about middle of the dark grey dip.
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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
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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
BTW I took the liberty of copying your image from this forum to play with so I could use the greys that you're using. Hope this was of some help.
TS
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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
Attached Link: Bryce Images from Grey Textures
Yes, I see, you seem to be going rather a long way around there, but that'll be because I saved the selections from before and thus had a short cut.So I got to this:
No1 is from before gradients
2 is the first attempt
3 2nd using a darker lowest colour
4 3rd using even darker
And none are good enough.
Ah, I seem to have posted the Bryce image results using these greys to the other thread, see link above.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
The darkest one I also moved the end point to just outside the selection. But it didn't help.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
I was pretty much despairing with Gradients, it just wasn't working at all.
So I finally thought I'd better try ThunderStone's idea of shrinking the selection and filling with ever darker colours.
It doesn't work without a bit of tweaking, because of those bar remnants that go across the dips - what originally formed the handles to lift the cover before they rusted away - so I had to paint some of the graded colours by hand, the ends nearest the bars.
Plus when you blur, you get dark lines around the edges of the dips, these had to be painted out too, and yet a faint ridge remains, causing that odd glitch you see in the brown half of the image above, but compared with the others this is a much better effort - especially when the texture is added.
What I'm wondering now is how do you do a decent pebbly sand?
Preferably without having to paint every - single - pebble!!!???
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Rather than use the blur filter from the filter menu, use the blur tool which would give you a more precise control of blurring. It's located on the tool menu, and looks like a droplet.
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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
As for the pebbly sand, you could use one of those pebbly presets in rock and stone section.
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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 meant making a decent terrain out of that pebbly beach photo I went to so much effort to tile, this one:
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
That's looks super! Fran, you've done it!!!
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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
Thanks guys, you were all great! especially us girls! ROFL!
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/
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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