Forum: Bryce

Subject: Bryce Skies?

FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Jul 18, 2009 · 16 posts

FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 18 July 2009 at 11:22 AM

Attached Link: Marvellous Skies

Can anyone - or has anyone already - made Bryce Skies like this?

www.flickr.com/photos/salvita_42/sets/72157607492375142/show/with/2265198439/

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skiwillgee posted Sat, 18 July 2009 at 2:38 PM

Sounds like a mini-challenge to me? You up to it?

TheBryster posted Sat, 18 July 2009 at 3:01 PM Forum Moderator

I think Bryce is up to this. There are hundreds of skies presets about.

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Quest posted Sat, 18 July 2009 at 9:56 PM

Well this is not anywhere as dramatic as the skies in those photos and not even done with volumetrics but here's a start. It's done with a tweaked Venus sky preset by changing the sun's color after positioning and also changing the haze color.

BecSchm posted Sat, 18 July 2009 at 10:46 PM

Here's my attempt. I'm no purist, so I combined a photo of mine with a Bryce sky. Still not as good as the ones at Fran's link, but I kinda like it.

50parsecs posted Sun, 19 July 2009 at 12:20 AM

Very nice Skies Quest and BecSchm! I'll have to see if I can come up with some creative sky to add to this.

rj001 posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 6:53 AM

hope im not too late to play, heres my sunset....

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rj001 posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 6:54 AM

and how it was done all bryce out of the box

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50parsecs posted Mon, 20 July 2009 at 12:23 PM

Very pretty sky!

skiwillgee posted Tue, 21 July 2009 at 1:21 PM

*Can anyone - or has anyone already - made Bryce Skies like this?*

I'm sure it can be done in Bryce. I'm not sure it can be achieved in the sky lab only though. I did some experimenting and came up with this. This is a custom sky with all clouds turned off. The clouds are "fuzzy cloud" preset mat that I added two more channels in mat lab and tweaked in DTE. then applied to six separate cubes in the scene.

The result would make a presentable stratus. The next step would be to add the cumulus clouds at a lower altitude and get their color layers right. With work it could be done. The render times would be unbelievably long.

FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 21 July 2009 at 5:31 PM