Orbital - abandoned by RedSteve
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All in Bryce 5, only post pro was to convert to Jpeg. All my own except the guy, he came from 3d cafe (I think). Oh, and I got the earth image map from a net resource too. I am not totally happy with this image, but I am totally fed up with it - the various saves number over 90 and occupy nearly a gig on my HD, so this is as far as I go!!
Comments (7)
Rochr
90 saves??? But this is a great piece! Excellent depth!
tuttle
Nice sense of scale and quite good colour contrast. The tree's a bit out of place though. And see a shrink about that save mania!!! ;)
Ev3rM0r3
That took up a gig? Are you joking.. theres nothing in it.. no shapes at all.. look at my pics once.. i have 5000 objects per mesh part on my models.. and thers like 8 meshes total which are 150-200 megs a peice.. just get a faster computer. Worked for me
RedSteve
Thanks to everybody for the comments. Ev3rM0r3, Computer speed has nothing to do with it. The render takes about 3 minutes at 1024x512. I have a very fast computer, believe me! Each bryce save produces a file that is 16meg + 1 meg .bmp, on average. Simple maths gives you 1547meg. I deleted some of the earlier ones, what's left takes up a gig. You are right, there is not all that much to this picture - 56 objects for 1,433,557 polygons. They are mostly Terrains and basic primitives, though there are a couple of imported meshes. Tuttle, thanks for the comments. I'm also not sure about the tree, but I love the dappled shade it produces. I haven't got a problem with saves, honest! (twitch twitch). When I finish a picture, I dump all the saves. I save so much because I get really pissed off with Bryce's habit of 1) Crashing without warning and 2) deciding to reset all the parameters of an object, particularly lights. I love the output Bryce produces but it is not a model of good programming!
addy1969
Hi, I assume you just landed on Nivens Ringworld, but where are the sunshades ? Overall nice pic, but some distance blur might do it some good.
RedSteve
Addy, Thanks for the comments. It is a ring world, but not based on Larry Niven's Ringworld, hence no shades. It is based in fact on one of Iain M Banks 'Orbitals', a similar concept. I will try some distance blurring as you suggest. I'll experiment a bit ... thanks for the suggestion.
pixeltek
Just weed out the saves and keep just the few you absolutely need. I like the image a lot, and just realize that it is some sort of ring world. Very cool. Also, I think that Bryce's haze give a good impression of distance and the slight blur it conveys works for me.