Forum: Bryce


Subject: Interior WIP

alexants opened this issue on Jul 29, 2002 ยท 10 posts


alexants posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 2:23 AM

My latest endeavor... Hoping to complete it soon. All objects created in Rhino, rendered in Bryce.

EricofSD posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 3:55 AM

That's a nice render.


EricofSD posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 3:57 AM

Um, you might want to get some shadows in there.


SAMS3D posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 4:17 AM

Very nice, I love your rug


Phantast posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 4:41 AM

How do you (personally) move objects from Rhino to Bryce? I find that if one just exports an .obj and then imports it, you have a separate mesh for every part of the model, which makes texturing more work than it should be. It would be nice if Bryce read the Rhino material names.


airflamesred posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 10:46 AM

battery driven lamps are they? - nice


alexants posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 11:05 AM

Yes, I export wavefront objects (.obj) and it IS sometime a lot of work to texture each mesh. Joining as many objects as possible in Rhino helps, because then they're exported joined.


Peej posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 2:43 PM

Good modeling. Good rug. I think the wood is a bit too much smoothy specular. Looks like Formica-ish.


EricofSD posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 8:01 PM

A freeware app you might want to use is Grouper which converts obj files regroups the mesh by texture assignment. Thus if you only use two textures, you'll only have two mesh groups. It should be in the freestuff here. Poser really needs this because of the large number of mesh objects that it uses, but the program works on any .obj file.


Phantast posted Tue, 30 July 2002 at 4:41 AM

I take it you've never tried to use Grouper on a Rhino-exported .obj? For some reason it doesn't see the material names either. (Mind you, I haven't tried to see if v1.2 has the same problem.) I have a clunky solution, but it's better than anything else I've been able to do. 1) Export .obj from Rhino. 2) Import to Poser. 3) Export .obj from Poser. 4) Run through Grouper. 5) Import into Bryce. At least you only have to do it once. There is an added problem that sometimes Poser alters the geometry a little, typically adding a slight curve to flat surfaces.