Night Courtyard by judyk
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Description
I found this old (2003) Bryce 5 render and its companion image, Blue Courtyard, on a disk I was clearing out yesterday, and I thought it might be worth posting them before I got rid of them. They're a good example of what Bryce can do with very simple lighting and render settings.
This night-time image uses a black sky with no sunlight. There are 5 radial lights in the hanging lanterns (intensity 326, cast shadows, visible-volume, infinite light, ranged 3, colour soft yellow). There are also 3 radial lights in upper windows (intensity 3, cast shadows, visible-surface, ranged 35, colour soft yellow).
The image takes Bryce5 28 mins to render, then 2 hours 50 mins to AA, but 90% of time is taken up rendering the lamps and lamplight.
The columns in the picture were adapted from DM's Window, and the planters were from MnDProductions, but I don't think either of these are available now. The fountain was a freebie, the plants were from various sources, and the lamps are mine.
Comments (3)
perpetualrevision
Hard to believe this is an "old" render! Looks beautiful. Makes me wish (again!) that Bryce would work on a modern Mac!
BryceHoro
Great night lighting.
judyk
Thanks for the kind comments, both! There's something about Bryce that still keeps me coming back to it, and I think it's the lighting. It's much easier to construct a detailed landscape image in Vue, but to me the Vue lighting has a muddy - if that's the right word - quality, that usually leaves me a little disappointed with the results, no matter how hard I try. But I can sit and watch a Bryce render right through, just to enjoy seeing the reflections, the shadows and the puddles of light and dark emerging, and think "that's just how it looks in real life!" I know they say that Bryce has its own look, but they all do, and some of the latest render engines produce a look that I find a little plastic-like. To keep using the older software I've preserved my Windows 7 environment on my tower system using a triple-boot setup (Win7 for old software, Win10 for the new stuff, and Linux for office work). Win 7 is not allowed on the internet for security reasons, and the setup works well, apart from the fact that Win 10 keeps trying to update the graphics card to be just right for Win 10, and that causes problems in Win7, so I have to keep rolling the changes back. I suppose that a new version of Bryce that's even better than the old one is too much to hope for.... would be nice, though.
crender
Outstanding