You can actually do do anything if you put the energy into it. Characters, Houses etc but you need to use the, the thingy I forgot the name on, and load up a 'texture' or something to 'follow' for the.. erh.. Thingy.. And there you go.Originally posted by The Architect
Its a nice app...
My first experience with 3D was with Bryce 4. It was very easy to get results. It was designed for terrain though, so it was limited with modelling and similar. At least booleans worked (I'm looking at you Maya), and if one tries, one can get some decent results with cubes, spheres, tori, pyramid and cones (the user's manual had examples of a tower and the Pharos? lighthouse, at least in V4).
Its probaly used for hobbies, there are plenty of renders made with Bryce on the Internet.
And as Jay said, its good for creating panoramas of skies (Quicktime VR I believe it output to) I really liked making skies... I made hundreds of them... :p
So much fun!
The grey-scale height map thing for mountains? Yeah, one can use it to "sculpt" organic things such as characters, but it takes lots of time and effort. I can't remember, but I don't think it had a 3D view and the working space was small.Originally posted by lillsnopp
You can actually do do anything if you put the energy into it. Characters, Houses etc but you need to use the, the thingy I forgot the name on, and load up a 'texture' or something to 'follow' for the.. erh.. Thingy.. And there you go.
Argh, the thingy you know, you load up for the mountainrange the FORMS the thingy they follow, anyway you load up something else to follow, lets say, a Dog and if its correctly done you get a rendered dog, but this demands a bit off skill which I certainly never had in Bryce.
Thats it.. I dont know if its the right name but you know what I mean.The grey-scale height map thing for mountains? Yeah, one can use it to "sculpt" organic things such as characters, but it takes lots of time and effort. I can't remember, but I don't think it had a 3D view and the working space was small.
I would not know, I only tried making terrain from the gray-scale thing... I wasn't very good at it (could never get it nearly as good as people on the net or the magazine tutorial. I used it for modelling buildings and for sky panoramas.Originally posted by lillsnopp
Thats it.. I dont know if its the right name but you know what I mean.
I remembering it taking A LOT of time and I, who sucked at it, usually did not get very good results but I did see people who made some amazing things with it, of course, we would never admit we cant do that, Because we can, we RULE, we just decided not to.. Yeah.....
And thinking about it, Bryce Booleans function was rather good, compared to, OH I DONT KNOW.. MAYA???
What?! Oh.... I think you got had there. Booleans have never functioned, it is a inside joke from AW and us old farts using Maya.As you say, booleans on Maya, well, kinda suck and do not work as advertised in the User's Manual. I, like many novices, was left completely confused when using Booleans for the first time, since they just worked elsewhere...
