this is an easy tutorial to help new Bryce users to get familiar with the program menu
1. Open Bryce3D
2. Open a new document > File > Document Setup
3. Once in the document setup window, make sure "Constrain Proportions" is turned off
and set your document to 500x350 pixels so that it won't take too long to render
your picture. Just click on the checkmark at the bottom right when you're done
4.Set your document to Director's view by clicking on the first arrow on the left just next to your workplace
5. If you look above in the Menu at the left corner, you will see a little window called the Nano
preview which is a small representation of what you will get when rendering your image.
Also, you will notice that Bryce always displays a sky by default in the Nano preview.
We will leave the sky as it is for now, Here is the Nano preview.....
6. Now we will apply a water surface to our landscape. Go to the Palette above your workplace
and click on the Water Pane....a little submenu will appear. Choose "Surface".
Now watch the Nano preview, you should see a water surface by now.....
7. Now, we will change the sky a little bit....
8. Go to the Palette above where you see Create > Edit > Sky & Fog.
Notice that you have to move over the upper area to see that palette.
9. Click once on Sky & Fog > Then click on the big, black round button above on the right
to open up the Sky Lab > then click on the Cloud Cover tab and set it like I have in the
image below.,,....
Now, click on the checkmark to accept the change. Now we are back to
the workplace. Click on the middle gray button down on the left of your workplace
to render your landscape.....
it might take 20 to 40 seconds to render depending
of your system or number of applications running in background.
I have this result.....
We will add a rainbow to our landscape.
10. Go to the Palette above where you see Create > Edit > Sky & Fog and again
you cick once on Sky & Fog > Then click on the big, black round button on the right
to open up the Sky Lab > then click on "Atmosphere". I had the settings like in the image
below......
click on the checkmark to accept the changes....
Here is my result
If you prefer to have less clouds just go back to the Sky & Fog's Palette and reduce the clouds cover
and the atmosphere. My settings were like in this screenshot below except that "Cumulus" was turn on.
and you results will be similar to this.....
You can save your image as a .br5 image which is the Bryce format
and then after you can export it as .bmp (bitmap) or .PSD (Photoshop). personnaly after saving it as a .br5 image
I always export it as a .PSD image and change it to a .JPG in Photofiltre or Paint Shop.
I like the.JPG format for it is much lighter than the .bmp or .PSD format
Tip:
All .br5 images that you save in the Bryce default folder can be modified again and again.
You can re-open the .br5 image to change the settings of the sky again, clear the water surface
and add a terrain or rocks instead and so on....
Voilà, c'est terminé félicitations!!!...You're done!!!