New Bryce Tutorial

[CADTutor]

Yet another major tutorial for you to get your teeth into. Keyframe Animation (http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/bryce/anim/anim.html) in Bryce is especially for all you Brycers who have been bothered by animating Bryce objects. Hope you like it!

[Psmeg]

Hi David,

I'm getting a 404 on the link....

Regards

Psmeg

[CADTutor]

:-[ Sorry, URL now fixed or click here www.CADTutor.net/dd/bryce/anim/anim.html (http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/bryce/anim/anim.html)

[Psmeg]

Looks like an excellent tutorial David... maybe I'll dig out my copy of Bryce and give it a whirl.... :D

Regards

Psmeg

[stephen]

excuse my ignorance but what exactly is bryce? ???

Stephen


My First post btw ;D

[CADTutor]

Well, Bryce is a 3D Landscape generator. Originally created by Metacreations and sold to Corel about 18 months ago. Currently at version 5.

I use it a lot for creating settings for models built in AutoCAD. It's a lot easier to work with than VIZ/MAX (once you get used to the interesting interface) and it's cheaper (a lot!). There's an excellent materials library but amazing control over the way things look and rendering is high quality.

The nice thing is that you work with real world objects like the Sun and clouds etc as well as all the usual 3D modelling tools.

http://www.cadimage.net/cadtutor/skylab.jpg

For example, the dialogue box above is the Skylab and enables you to create all sorts of skies including nite time skies with stars.

It has cult status on the web and you'll find loads of galleries. Often used by artists to create "alien world" images but is great for plain old images of the Earth!

See http://www.corel.com/bryce5 for more details.

Actually, all the avatar icons on this forum were created with Bryce. It's my favourite 3D app.

[superjari]

Do you import your ACAD drawings into Bryce?

[CADTutor]

Yes I do. Export to 3DS and then into Bryce. It all works wonderfully well. I'll probably do a tutorial on this before the end of the year for my students. I teach a course next semester called "Digital Landscapes" where I have students using AutoCAD, Bryce and Photoshop to design a walk through a landscape.

[superjari]

And wil you submit it to the website?

[CADTutor]

Yes, all the tutorials I do are put on the web site.

[superjari]

Nice... 8)

[vizwhiz]

hi There

David

do have any Links to examples of cad into Bryce images?

i downloaded the trial version of Bryce (probably should have waited a couple of weeks, but o well) was curious how this all turns out using VIZ 3ds and Bryce for site work

do you have some links to online Bryce Tutorials in general? i used to play with Bryce 2, but not a lot of success with it at that Time.

since i do mostly site work and Exteriors This would be very Interesting to see ho well it works

Thanks

vizwhiz

[CADTutor]

Don't have any of my own images on-line but you'll find loads of resources and galleries on the web. See the Bryce Resource Page (http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/bryce/resource/resource.html) on CADTutor for a start.

[vizwhiz]

hi There

David

Thanks

you are a great resource and so helpful

vizwhiz

[superjari]

I've tried Bryce, but when I import the *.3ds file, it turns into one object, so when applying a texture, it covers the whole building, what do you do to avoid this?

[CADTutor]

When you import a .3DS into Bryce it is imported as a Group Object. All you need to do is to Ungroup it and all the objects will be selectable for attaching materials.

Haven't got round to a tutorial for this yet but I will just as soon as...

[superjari]

OK, THNX

It looks like an really easy program for landscape and sky...