positve/negative..then why isn't my moon becoming a half moon?  Have I suddenly forgotten?

can someone plz baby me a bit and do a mini tut on creating half noons?

somehow, my brain isn't working here.

 I would just use the sky editor to edit the moon itself...but if you wanna make an object (sphere) and make it look like a half moon, then just make 2 spheres, select the one you want to make the moon, hit the little A for attribute editor... select positive.

Then select the other sphere and it's A for attribute and select negative. Then make that sphere a bit larger and move it into place to "slice" a chunk out of your moon sphere, select both and group them.

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that's what i did.. and it didn't happen..
i mean creating the object. It ought to have happened.. but it didn't. That's why i was wondering if I went wrong somewhere.. and I wasn't doing it right..

Ah..got it.. the grouping bit. Dumb..dumb..
thanks weezer!

WTG, Rosie!

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palked.. lol!!!
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btw.. my moon is a bowl!!! i guess i have to work that out,,,

 Do it with the Light Lab Rosie...a half moon is the product of shadow and not subtraction of part of the moon in real life so would be made the same way in Bryce

 

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what if you were putting a lady sitting on it? a poser.. pardon the blasphemy.. figure? or a cat? or a dolphin jumping over the moon? ok..that i can use the skylab for. Illusion there. But a cat on a moon?

 Were I to try that [and I did], I'd make it a 2D object essentially and have it face the camera, there's a switch for that, and have the lady or cat grouped to the moon where you want it/her to appear, so no matter where you put your camera you can't see but the side shot keeping the 2D aspect out of the image. I did a similar image for an all nite radio show and that's how I achieved this, although in Imagine 3D but the technique would be the same.. ...

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Ok..think i've got that.. though the camera bit keeping the 2d out of the shot aspect puzzles me.

Instead of a spheres try two thin cylinders...    add a radial light ... in the lab, under fallout set it to range.. put a small number on it .. like 33.. and move the radial light very near the moon...  in the materials lab of the cylinder.. knock out shadows...   It's a fantasy moon.... add a moon texture..

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 Tom has it.... essentially a cylinder shrunk in the length would have the 2D character and I think Track to camera in the {A} tab would keep it looking at the camera

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Rosie,  Here are three samples I did for you in about 15 minutes.  Clockwise starting from the top a sphere, a sphere flattened on the Z axis, and a single cylinder.  All matted with a simple rock material ( I did this in Bryce 5 with stock presets).

They are individually lighted with their own parallel light set to ranged and the range value is low enough that the light is limited its moon only.  All three are rendered in the same scene close to each other so you can see the ability to limit lighting on objects when you use ranged settings.  The flattened sphere has three parallel lights spread out a little so to make a bigger crescent.

The problem with these would be your desire to place a figure sitting on the moon.  The lights would effect the imported poser figure also and you may be wanting something different for the figure.  But if you like the realism of these examples you can always render the moon, save the image and then import the image as a 2d plane for you figure to sit on. 

Just some thoughts.  Happy Easter.

Try this one.

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Thanks everyone. I'll sit on it tonite. (41 deg cel here).
UV Dan..lol..that moon is adorable!
Willie..i'll need to create that moon for another scene..so your mini tut is a blessing.
Tom..I'm gonna try that out later down the day.

Bless ya for helping..

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OR you just make a sphere add your material to it, then go into the material lab, ad a "b" channel in the transparency and then select "basic altitude" from the material list, then in the DTE select the filter and adjust the a and b settings to get the transparency to your liking. Like the moons in this image I did.

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Thanks for that tip.   I always wondered how folks got moons like that.

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Dan that's also how I do water lines on terrains, I use the diffuse channel with basic altitude instead of the transparency channel.

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Thanks, that is nice to know.

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clay..lovely moon..
thanks .. if only it wasn't 42 deg here now..i'd sit and work on it.
lines in water??

yes where you see where water has pulled from the bank of the terrain. Like this sample.

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got it..
thank you for that tip! Will use it for sure..

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