Things that go bump in the night..

[paulselhi]

I am messing around with some 3d programs trying to create a short space movie. the problem is i have grand ideas and little skill. The sort of things i want to do are taking a day for about 10 secs of work !!

Well i have been trying a few other programs but none as yet are delivering the ease of use and quality of images that bryce is doing.

I thought i'd share some examples of some work i have ben doing with bump maps and how a realtively plain model can be turned into an "epic " with a simple bump map

Have a look :

www.wanbridge.net/stuff/space/index.html

[JGross]

thats some pretty damn good bryce work

[paulselhi]

thanks but not really that good, i just put these together as examples, each scene took less than 5 mins to setup and a minute or so to render !!!

[JGross]

i hate rendering on my computer, the 3d scenes take hours.

[paulselhi]

i find with bryce it is agood idea to save and then restart bryce, it seems to help speed it up, and if that is not enough a reboot sometimes helps ( as does a defraged drive and cleared pagefile)

But at the end of the day procedural textures will always slow render time down, bitmap - bumps are faster however they do lack the detail