I'm having a problem bringing a scene file back into Bryce5. The other day I was rendering to disk and it was at 81% done when the power company shut the lights off up the street to do some work. Now when I try to open this scene it loads to 50% then I get this message. I can open other scenes from the past but this one won't load. I've worked hard on this one for two weeks now and hate to start over. Can anybody please help me? Thanks Schurby

Try merging the scene into an empty one.

I tried that just now but no luck. Not looking good. Thx

Another thought.. Try removing the .bmp file (or whatever) associated with the bryce scene file and then opening the scene file.

If you still have Bryce 4 you could try to see if it will load in there.

I do have Bryce4 but anything done in 5 won't go into 4. Thanks all anyway, it's starting to storm so time to shut this baby down. Guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and start over. Thx everyone

I lost power on a 65m scene and had the same problem. I was unable to resolve it with Bryce. Fortunately, I had a backup of the file on another drive. Didn't need to use it though because Win ME picked up another problem after an hour of messing with Bryce and set my system restore, which brought back the file. Odd thing is that the 65m file, while it was crashing Bryce after the power failure, was reporting as 0 megs in the file manager. If your file is reporting 0 size, then its gone and you'll have to find another way to restore it. Look in the Bryce temp file and see if there's a backup there.

Yeah... Bryce does leave backups in that folder. Also, try changing the preferences settings before you try to open the [broken] file. This feature often causes my machine to crash on scene loading in B4. Set it back to the factory defaults.

Thanks I'll looking in the Bryce temp file when I get home tonight. From now on I'm going to burn it to a disk before I start. Lesson Learned!!! Got XP from Dell yesterday. Gotta be better than this Junk ME...

Sad fact is that happens to all of us at least once. After learning the lesson, ive been know to have 10 files of the same pic saving every few hours and up to 400 megs on the last one. Recovered that particular pic with only 2 hours wasted when something similiar happened to me. Of course burn all your artwork once finished to cdr, because something will eventually happen and fry your entire harddrive collection.

I use the render/resume button on my final renders. This allows me to stop the render, save as, then resume as often as I like. This beat render to disk due to the possible problem stated here. I'm also creating backups along the way. that can be resumed from the point I stopped for the save.

If you have the disk space you could work this way. Do a few changes, save a numbered version. Bryce is smart enough to add a version number when you do a save as. If Bryce goes south, you have a previous version to work from, so you don't have to start from scratch. This is good also if while working on the picture it went down the wrong path and you want to return to a certain point.