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panthermagic7
25th Jul 2003, 01:03 am
Hi there - :)

I'm new here so I hope I am at the right place for my questions.
My questions are not really/totally about the tutorial itself but the over all subject of it. The tutorial was very informative & I now have a general idea of how to do this howver, my first question is this: I use Paint Shop Pro instead of Photoshop so I created a mask image for an image I had already had saved thru PSP. When I brought it into Bryce, there was a faint block around my image - would someone be able to tell me how I could avoid that in the future? My second question is about lighting....I created a pic object along with the tutorial (using images provided on the website) but when I rendered them in Bryce, they were very dark - almost like a shilouette instead of a reg image - could someone tell me what I did wrong? I did try to play around with different types of lighting but it did not seem to help. Any information anyone could provide me would be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.

CADTutor
25th Jul 2003, 07:57 am
Welcome to the forum!

When you say the images had a "faint block" around them, do you mean that they had a dark fringe around the object or that you could see a faint rectangular background. Both of these things are possible but have different causes.

As for lighting. Since pic objects are 2D planes, the direction of the sunlight has a profound affect on the way they reflect light. Try turning the object to face the sun or move the sun to light the object correctly.

Bear in mind that you can also trach the pic object to the camera so that they are always seen face-on.

panthermagic7
25th Jul 2003, 08:16 am
Hi there & thanks for the welcome as well as the reply. :)

The faint block I see around the image is like a box - the image I did was a teddybear I made in PSP & it looks like he is sitting in the square. I don't know if that was any help in awsering your question to me - I did save the pic in case I needed to send it to someone since I am not real good at explaining it. :( It may be easier for both of us if I would be able to send it to you somehow so you can see what I mean. And thanks for the lighting tip - I will have to try that. :)