Bryce Resources

There are literally hundreds of Bryce tutorials on the web. Most of them were created by gifted amateurs and some are the result of professional work. Either way, the makers of these tutorials have lots of experience with Bryce and despite the questionable quality of some of the design work, the level of advice, tips and tricks on offer is amazing. The tutorial links below have been chosen because they are particularly useful but represent just a small selection. They are rated in terms of usefulness. Almost anything worth finding was listed at Hinchu's Bryce Tutorial Database. Alas, this site no longer exists but I'm leaving the link in the hope that one day it may return. If any Brycers out there can tell me what happend to the site I would be most grateful.

Tutorial Listings

Hinchu's Bryce Resource Page
The best place to start if you're looking for Bryce tutorials.

Ultimate 3D Links
Lots and lots of tutorials listed here in alphabetical order but with only the briefest of description. However, there are some really good tutorials here.

3D Cafe
More than 70 tutorials listed with short descriptions.

The Bryce Chronicles
Over 240 tutorials listed in no particular order. Nice listing but dreadful web design.

ISCREAM
Selective tutorials and resources.

Useful Tutorials

Deep Texture Editor
Excellent 7-part tutorial by Walter Vandijck takes you step-by-step through the DTE.

Camera Animation
Need to create a walkthrough? This tutorial from Brycetech tells you how.

Bryce Landshapes
Some useful stuff including a fantastic tutorial on creating realistic coastal edges, check it out.

Using a Picture as a Material
Simple and excellent tutorial.

Creating and Animating Rain in Bryce
Clear and well presented tutorial brought to you by Pixel Arcana.

Making Movies in Bryce 4
An excellent and well illustrated tutorial to get you going with animation.

Animating a Waterfall
Superb comprehensive tutorial including downloadable volume material for the water.

Peter Sharpe's Bryce Tutorials
Excellent set of tutorials including streaming light effects, pouring water and a very good introduction to boolean operations.

Brycetech Tutorials
A whole range of useful tutorials starting from basics.

Texture Mixing
Learn how to mix bitmap and procedural textures to create realistic looking terrains - a really good tutorial.

Deep Sea Diving
Under water scenes using terrains and caustic effects.

Ocean Waves
Excellent tutorial from Lone Wolf.

Simple Trees & Bushes
A nice idea and quite an endearing web page.

Create a Scene in Bryce
A very good set of step-by-step tutorials from Computer Arts magazine.

Book Recommendations

Real World Bryce by Susan Kitchens and Victor Gavenda. This is probably the easiest of book recommendations to make. Bryce books aren't exactly thick on the ground but this book is really excellent. In fact, for Bryce, this is the only book you need. It's written in a very friendly style, which makes it easily readable and it manages to make the sometimes inscrutible workings of the inner Bryce world very easy to understand. Real World Bryce is just short of 1,000 pages and covers every aspect of the software. It also comes with a CD ROM containing lots of example images. This book is a bit on the pricey side but it is worth every penny. It's available from Amazon.co.uk for £41.99.

General Resources

Jonathan Allan's Web Thing
Some great tutorials here including the Wave tutorial and the excellent Forest tutorial suite.

Calyxa's World of Pearl
A legend in her own lunchtime, Calyxa's (aka Ruth Fry) site has almost everything including useful tutorials, skies and materials.

Virtual Lands
A well designed site with lots of stuff. The 3D Texture section is very good. Choose from a range of great textures for free download.

Corel Bryce 5
The official Bryce web site at Corel.

Bryce4All
Lots of Bryce Sky and Texture files to download, some of them are even quite good.

Puss Reboots
Lots of free stuff including sky files and terrain textures. Unfortunately, there are no preview images for most of the files so you can't see what you're getting (how annoying!)

Terrain & Landscape Generation Software
A comprehensive list of all the other software out there for creating landscapes. Compiled by those nice people at Ultimate 3D Links

Galleries

Bryce Gallery by Andrew Paul
A nice looking site with some great images and other stuff to boot.

Peter Sharpe
Landscape Gallery.

Bryce Gallery
Various artists.