IO4 opened this issue on Jan 20, 2012 · 17 posts
IO4 posted Fri, 20 January 2012 at 12:33 AM
Hi everyone, I've just put together a short tutorial about how you can customize the Bryce interface. It's aimed at the less experienced Bryce user who may not be aware of what you can do with the palettes (unless you've trawled throught the manual...) and background colour. In much older versions of Bryce it seems that you could hide palettes, but this is not so in Bryce 6 & 7. So the functionality is limited in terms of what you can do
The text version is here:
If you prefer video tutorials it's on the same site here:
or at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn2mgm6JN-Q
I hope someone might find the tutorial useful.
peedy posted Fri, 20 January 2012 at 8:46 AM
Thank you.
Will have a look at it.
I can always do with hints and tips. :-)
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ThunderStone posted Fri, 20 January 2012 at 9:19 AM
Thanks for the tut... Was wondering how to do that... Now I'll know!
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clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 2:13 AM
Still works in the newest versions as well.
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IO4 posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:00 AM
Quote - Still works in the newest versions as well.
HI Clay, could you clarify? What works? Hididng the palettes?
clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:03 AM
They are "stacked" on top of each other, side to side and top etc, just hold down the space bar and drag the menu to where you want it, if you have multiple/mirrored monitors you can put your menus in the other screen as well.
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clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:05 AM
as far as hiding them, not so much, as far as changing the actual bryce interface colors, nope, it was proposed once and never implemented, hopefully soon here we'll get some of the really old things worked out.
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IO4 posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:07 AM
Quote - They are "stacked" on top of each other, side to side and top etc, just hold down the space bar and drag the menu to where you want it, if you have multiple/mirrored monitors you can put your menus in the other screen as well.
Ah yes, of course you can do it that way, but what I was referring to was that in older versions (pre V6) you could hide them by key commands - this was removed and documented as such in the B6 manual.
clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:14 AM
Hmmm. lemme simmer on that one, it should still work if I think I know what you mean, I watched your tut etc. but maybe explain more?
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IO4 posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:25 AM
Well, I've tried out and the key commands that used to work and they don't work...here's what the DAZ 6 manual says under Known Issues:
(The Bryce 7 manual doesn't give any information about hiding palettes)
Unless they work in a Mac still ? I only have a PC.
clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:34 AM
Ctrl+tab to hide still works on the Mac, and "should" on the PC as well just tried it here on 3 different puters, the other key functions might have been effected with the new coding going on, there have been issues for sure during testing and since the old versions.
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clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:37 AM
LOL just noticed ctrl+2,3 keys work to switch, so yeahhhh gonna say that's a bug that needs reported if it hasn't been already, I'll get it sent up the line.
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IO4 posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:41 AM
Quote - LOL just noticed ctrl+2,3 keys work to switch, so yeahhhh gonna say that's a bug that needs reported if it hasn't been already, I'll get it sent up the line.
With the long list of issues still outstanding and it listed as a known issue for years, I can't see that it'll get much attention..but submit a report by all means. Iv'e already submitted a bug for the fact that the pallette size (width) when moved as shown in the B7 manual does not reflect the width when actually moved in B7 - it would be better to have it the size shown in the B7 manual.
clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 3:46 AM
Oh for sure, Also something you might need to know is that I work on Bryce and know everyone who created Bryce, so I'll get the issue sent up the line to the programmers that need the correct information on this issue, lottsa bugs are there when you are rebuilding old code, new stuff breaks old stuff kinda thing. And the Programmers do read these threads as well to stay informed to new issues not posted to the bug tracker. So its all good:-)
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skiwillgee posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 9:09 PM
Clay, are you implying Bryce is currently being re-written?
clay posted Sun, 22 January 2012 at 9:13 PM
It has been partially with version 7, its implementing new with old and getting it all to play together nicely that is the issue, for right now Bryce is on hold until Daz gets a few things done and out the door, then they will resume work on Bryce, when we have no idea as of yet but hopefully this summer.
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greywolfe1960 posted Mon, 23 January 2012 at 5:45 PM
Thank you for the info!
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