This is a vehicle I made using ONLY Bryce primitives!! Im trying to encourage people who think that you can only make "simple models" with Bryce primitives, to go overboard! get crazy with detail in your objects!!

Very true, cool model. Hawkfyr

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Where can I find more information about primatives? I have Bryce 3. Is it in the manual(which has turned out to be a foreign language to me)?

Don't RTFM, just experiment yourself, the more you try , the more you learn...

Great model. GG

Rita.. primitives are the basic objects like sphere, cube, cone, etc. Really easy to use, but very useful when you have enough patience to work with them. The reason I tend not to use primitives is merely because sometimes I like to be able to export mine to another program... therefore, I build many of my objects in Rhino or Max.

Thanks for the response. The reason I asked was I'm trying to make very narrow upright "rails" and someone suggested I use primitives. I've been using the boolean objects for things similar to what I'm trying to do.I'm pretty new to Bryce and want to learn as much as I can now that I finally got the idea of 3D. If anyone here remembers, I was the one who was brain dead with Bryce!

BTW ApexB, I think your vehicle is real cool!

I like it too , what material is used for the exhaust? It looks like charged blue plasma , where can I get it or is it a DTE creation?

hell, even 3DS uses mostly primitives, as does every other modeling program basically. The big money ones just let you distort and shape them more. Lots of boolean work there. More patience than I have

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I made a ray gun in Bryce primitives. In the Poser Free Stuff call text search for "gun".

Bryce primatives can be suprisingly powerful. Check out the thread on the 2nd page by lhawk. His stunning castle is built entirely out of Brycean primatives. Paul

The exhaust material I made for this scen was originaly a cloud texture, then i changed it to a volume, changed the colors and noise (increased noise) of it in the deep texture editor, and toyed with the material size untill it looked right.

The limitations are more of an imagination one. I couldn't come up with stuff like that, though I've done some pretty cool stuff with primitives. The patience and creativity it takes to create something like you've done here is not within me :)

For me it's more that I don't have the patience to muck about with Bryce primitives when I can model so much more easily in Rhino or Max.. But I do love Bryce's renderer, atmospheric settings, and definitely the terrain/lattice editor.. =) Rosh