Against the World

24 July 2010

Ever wondered what the difference is between "World" and "Object" mapping in the texture editor? This tutorial will explain a bit about these modes, how to use them..and also how to overcome some oddities that may occur when using them.

This menu is accessible by clicking the arrow at the lower right corner of the display in the Material Lab. You may not have all of these options if you are using a version of Bryce earlier than 5. Corel added several new mapping modes in its upgrade of Bryce.

Understanding Soft Shadows in Bryce

24 July 2010

One thing that's seldom mentioned about Bryce is that it has two similar but slightly different Ray Tracers. Since Bryce 2 PC and B3 Mac it has incorporated a largely academic render model called Distributed Ray Tracing (not to be confused with Distributed Rendering, i.e. render farms). In Bryce 2 through 4, this was called the Fine Art render mode, in Bryce 5 it's called the Super mode. DRT was originally created as a better way to handle alising errors by using large oversampeling and, strangely enough, a type of controlled randomness. Along the way, some bright individuals found that DRT could also be used to simulate certain optical effects: Soft Shadows, DOF, Fuzzy transparency/reflection, Motion Blur and Color Bleed. Bryce 5 implements all these except Motion Blur and has only a very rudimentary (and pretty much useless) Color Bleed, called True Ambience. These effects are called Premium mode. Perhaps the most interesting of these effects is Soft Shadows.

Absolute Beginners Guide to Bryce

24 July 2010

If you always wanted to get started with 3D, Bryce would be a good start. You can make basic shapes using the simple tools that Bryce offers.

Create A Boolean Hollow Object

24 July 2010

Bryce gives you all kinds of neat 3D objects, but how do you make them hollow? how can you make a bowl or bucket? This tutorial will show you how easy it is to make a hollow object by duplicating, changing the properties and grouping.

How To Make A Waterfall

24 July 2010

With Bryce, there are several ways to make waterfalls. In this tutorial I'll show you the easiest and most effective one. Using this method, you can also make a stream or river flowing into a lake.

Make a 2D Picture Object

24 July 2010

This tutorial will describe how to use pictures as 2D objects in Bryce. You can make people, pets, objects and more come alive in your scene by following a few simple steps.

Create a 3D Gate Using a Black and White Picture

24 July 2010

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a 3D gate with a flat black and white picture using the Symmetrical Lattice in Bryce.

End result:
Create a 3D Gate Using a Black and White Picture Final Image

How to Create a Futuristic Landscape with Spaceship

24 July 2010

In this tutorial we will make a beautiful landscape using Bryce 5.5... We will learn how to make
1. The sky
2. The water
3. The spaceship

We use photoshop for making some minor adjustments like Hue/saturation, levels and curves....( I have used photoshop cs2)

How To Create A Beautiful Sunset With Ocean

24 July 2010

In this tutorial we will make a beautiful Sunset scene using Bryce 5.5
We will learn how to make
1. The sky
2. The water
3. The terrain/mountain

We use photoshop for adding ducks in the sunset scene. Also for making some minor adjustments like color balance.......( I have used photoshop cs2)

Making of Futuristic cityscape in bryce

24 July 2010

Step 1

Open Bryce
When we open Bryce a default document opens up.
In this document itself we start creating our futuristic cityscape

Now we create the sky.

Go to Objects > Sky Lab