Forum: Bryce

Subject: New planet series

clay opened this issue on Feb 15, 2014 · 29 posts

clay posted Sat, 15 February 2014 at 6:36 PM

Heyas Brycers,

I'm gonna start a new bryce series with planets etc. I posted earlier about some tutorials on doing this fun stuff but here's another WIP for what I'm wanting to put together as maybe a package of goodies.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

goofygrape posted Sat, 15 February 2014 at 8:06 PM

ws it hanging Clay?

Looks good cant wate.

clay posted Sat, 15 February 2014 at 9:15 PM

Its hanging, in space right now I reckon heh:-)

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

peedy posted Sat, 15 February 2014 at 11:35 PM

Sounds great!

 

Corrie

TheBryster posted Sun, 16 February 2014 at 10:14 AM Forum Moderator

Excellent!!!

Available on Amazon for the Kindle E-Reader

All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 17 February 2014 at 5:11 AM

This looks interesting.

I once did a render with a ship moving into a miasma of roiling red clouds, but can't reproduce it.

I only have a thumbnail of the original image, and my terrible attempts to duplicate it.

This is the thumbnail:

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 17 February 2014 at 5:29 AM

Here are my failed attempts at reproducing this:

Good luck with your space series.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

Paul Francis posted Tue, 18 February 2014 at 12:15 AM

Count me in and sign me up!

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"

 

brycetech posted Thu, 27 February 2014 at 7:50 PM

very cool clay!

skiwillgee posted Mon, 03 March 2014 at 10:36 PM

Is this an open invitation to post a planet here?   I don't want to impose if that is not the intent. 

clay posted Tue, 04 March 2014 at 12:44 PM

sure! everyone can post planets here, and if you would like, explain how you created it maybe?

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Tue, 04 March 2014 at 8:44 PM

Here's another new one, I started playing in the DTE again, so fun, anyways here's a still shot and I do have a 10 sec animation of it. This was just made for like a backdrop matte type thing where I'll add in some ships and SFX later. Also if in terested I can either post the planet's mat file for reference or some screen shots of the DTE, kinda don't have time to do vid tuts right now.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Tue, 04 March 2014 at 9:18 PM

weird posting prbs apparently??? Also this is all Bryce at this point no post work. 

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

FranOnTheEdge posted Wed, 05 March 2014 at 10:56 AM

Oooh that's nice!

Yes I'd love the mat file for that. Post away, Clay.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

clay posted Wed, 05 March 2014 at 4:04 PM

Attached Link: http://claygraphics.phase2.net/new%20waveclouds.mov

So some new news on this planet thinggy, I have a quick animation showing how the clouds can be animated etc, its a rough and needs tweaking, but it shows what ya can do, the animation only took about 2 hrs to render which isn't to bad on my old machine heheh. Again this is all bryce , I'm using 7.1 pro, but this should work in any version of Bryce as far as I know from 3 up.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Wed, 05 March 2014 at 5:36 PM

BTW, this is only 2 spheres, 1 for atomospheric haze(outer ring) and the planet itself is only one texture:-)

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

pumeco posted Thu, 06 March 2014 at 7:36 AM

Nice volumetrics on that first one, Clay!
And BTW, now I know where you hang when there's no Base Camp to hang around in :biggrin:

skiwillgee posted Thu, 06 March 2014 at 1:13 PM

Not nearly up to Clay's standards but here is my attempt. 3 spheres: sphere 1 is mapped with an Apophysis fractal with a tad of bump and displacement added and set at fuzzy material; sphere 2 is duplicate of sphere 1 enlarged ever so slightly, rotated a bit and mat has transparency turned up; sphere 3 is even larger with surface atmospheric. I set to cylindrical spots opposite each other, one positive light the other negative.

clay posted Thu, 06 March 2014 at 7:00 PM

Here's the file of the above animation if you guys wanna play around with it etc. The new ones I'm making I'm going to sell in a package thing I think.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Thu, 06 March 2014 at 7:04 PM

Attached Link: http://claygraphics.phase2.net/class_mplanet1.br7.zip

Here's the file of the above animation if you guys wanna play around with it etc. The new ones I'm making I'm going to sell in a package thing I think.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Sat, 08 March 2014 at 11:23 AM

If anyone gets an error of "object missing" when opening this file please post on here and make sure you have the latest version of Bryce 7.1

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 09 March 2014 at 8:15 AM

Nope, it worked just fine with me.

Nice smooth animation.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

clay posted Sun, 09 March 2014 at 5:26 PM

Sweet! So if it works for everyone start creating your own worlds and post em up:-)

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 5:40 AM

Working on it...

I added a ship leaving the planet, but the ship was casting a shadow onto the planet, now I'm working on removing that.

However, I think the planet moving so fast is... well, a bit out of kilter with the ship.  I'll have to think about that one, it looks like my trees are too tall and are waving in the wind. At the moment it's rendering as is, but hopefully without shadow.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

clay posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 6:27 AM

just set the planet mat and atmosphere mat to not receive shadows, play around with that.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 12:33 PM

Um... I've got bigger problems than that.

I've had a little play with your planet mat - and this is creating animation problems.  I turned it into a more desert like planet - not completely just more desert than it had - however, during the animation it keeps trying to revert to the original mat.  Even though I've gone through the mat lab and set the start and end keyframes to the new mat - it's still not right.

Also, I set the ship not to cast shadows (rather than the planet) and the ship's textures vanished. Weeeheee! Ain't I got fun!

I'll try it your way, see if that helps.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
 Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

clay posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 2:26 PM

Try going into the advanced motion lab and delete all the keyframes except for the main rotaion, then set your keyframes again for the texture. Also make sure your "autokey" is turned off on the mainscreen timeline, other wise any little change you make will automatically have a keyframe added.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Thu, 13 March 2014 at 12:57 PM

Another sample on the planet mats library I'm building.

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!

clay posted Thu, 13 March 2014 at 3:39 PM

Oh and also I'm gonna try, if time permits, to get some city block type greebles done up in a seperate thing so when you are putting together an animation/editing a video you can do a transition to the planet surface etc etc. Here's a base untexturd sample. ( and yes I know you can get some of this stuff already)

Do atleast one thing a day that scares the hell outta ya!!