Is there a way to Get precise measurements for objects in bryce, like say i wanted a doorway to be 8 feet tall, how could i go about doin this??? itsrainin

I am a real newbie but I just use the attributes numbers and pretend they are in inches. Once my object is done I can resize it if I need to. So an 8 ft door would be 96 in the Y attributes. Three feet wide would be 36 in the x or z and the other coordinate would be the thickness say 3 or 4 inches. Hope this helps. Ang

Yep just come up with what you want a Bryce unit to equal to then use that consistenly throughout your scene. For close up work you may want to work 1 Bryce unit = 1 inch. For larger scenes you might go to 1 BU = 1 foot or 1 mile or whatever you want.

Yep. For close-ups and/or indoor scenes, I use 1bu=1inch. Other times, I'll use 1bu = 1 ft. or 1bu = 1 meter. When I import a figure from Poser, it almost always comes in at 40.96bu tall. If I want it to be a scale 6ft (72 in) I can just feed in the original height (using an onscreen calculator) as a number to divide the target height by, and get a multiplier that will make it the right size. That way I can keep all my charactes and props in proportion.

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Bill Munns writes: '4 Bryce units equals one foot'

I am not a newbie and I do exactly what is suggested above.  For distance work, I use 1 bryce unit = 1 foot, for closer up it's 1 unit = 1 inch.

I suggest that you also create and keep two sets of materials, one that is for your close up models and one for the distance models, scaled appropriately.

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And from another newbie, good advise all around from above.

whatever works..;) scale only appears relevant when you have a recognizable object..;)

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That's true, pakled.  But it certainly makes like easier, since most objects are recognizable, yes?

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1bu = 1cm works for me.  But don't forget,  the measurements grid goes to 3 decimal points although you can't see more than 2.
in other words..............20.48 could be adjusted to 20.485 but you wouldn't see the '5' on the grid.

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Yeah, the metric system works really well in this regard.  I remember when I was modelling my house out of Bryce primitives, I had a chart handy with feet and inches broken down into decimal Bryce units to the third decimal point.

Ah, those were the days.

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