Show Us Your Bryce Renders! Part 7
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@David: Thanks for the clarification.
@Dave: Great looking terrain.
@mermaid: That's a really good looking abstract. Love the colors.
@Horo: That upside down terrain really looks good. What's it look like right side up?
@hansmar: Like the texture of that material.
@Bruce: That's an interesting image. What's the hovering object?
Hi Guss -
All the hovering object is just a cube - Like I stated in my comments, I am not sure what the original concept was that my friend had come up with. He just drew a sketch on a napkin and asked me to create an image?? So your guess is as good as mine as to what the scene or the cube represents.
Have a good one!
Bruce
Thanks Horo and Guss.
Horo: The upside down terrain looks really nice.
Hansmar: nice terrain, the texture is not bad.
Bruce: interesting story behind the render, I also wonder what the cube represents.
Other attempts at making terrains and curvature filter. I really don’t think I got the concept. Anyway is always fun playing with Bryce.
lots of interesting terrains from everybody here. Now I want to play with terrains too... but I'm stuck in a few other projects at the moment, so I'll have to delay that for a bit. Speaking of delays, here's a slightly reworked render that just completed this week from a project a while ago (sorry, no fantastic terrains in this one.) I changed the sky background to be a bit less purple, while hopefully still giving the sunrise/sunset appearance (given the fog, sunrise is actually more likely I suppose.) I also made some subtle fog changes on the left. That bronze deer statue that was bothering people has been changed to a corroded copper color, and I added a stump and a base as well, hopefully it looks more like a metal statue now rather than a really strange deer. I also added a few additional lanterns under the bridge, and modified the dragon material to get rid of a white spot on the eyebrow ridge that was kind of making some of them look a bit weird, and moved one of the dragons around a bit. I decided to keep the two pools above the river unchanged, although of course all the water reflections look a bit different. I also changed the material on the building in the near right to be a bit closer to the bridge material, and decided not to mess with the distant building materials because I couldn't get any satisfactory results when I tried.
@Sean: Improvements really look good. I didn't notice before, but it looks as though those folks have a dragon infestation. Either that or the zoo left a door open.
@ Sean
Dragons. Dragons. everywhere and not a place to run... ;-) Nice scene my friend. Seems like every time I look at it I find something I had missed from the last viewing. Cool image and well done!
Bruce
PS: IF ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE PAVERS I USED IN MY "THE PATH OF LIFE" IMAGE, I WENT BACK TO THAT PAGE AND EDITED IT SHOWING LINKS TO BOTH THE PAVER AND BRICK PROGRAMS THAT ARE FREE. SOME OF OUR ARTISTS HERE MAY FIND THESE PROGRAMS QUITE USEFUL FOR CREATING TEXTURES FOR BUILDINGS, BRICK WALLS, ETC.
@ Sean:
Yes I see what you mean about the highlights on the dragons eyes – 3 of them seem to have very bright white eyes. I like the changes to the mist and the no longer dark building on the right, it blends in much better now, in fact it all does. I like the new sky too. Well done.
@ Horo,
I don't know what you mean by 'upside down terrain' unless it's a lattice? I see some shadows around the edge of the land on the water (on the right) makes it look like the terrain isn't lowered down far enough, like it's sitting just above the water plane. But maybe it isn't. I've loved the highly detailed terrains that you and David have been showing us. Don't think I could possible emulate that.
@ Mermaid, nice abstract, particularly the colours.
@ Guss Nemo,
I'd love to see your results on these boxes, do post when you can.
@DaveSavage,
Love whatever it is you're doing with those primitive shapes. Especially the red material, looks rather like an old worn away red leather splitting at the seams.
Sorry everyone, but I can't type much these days as I've been playing rugby with the house and now have a dislocated shoulder.
In the meantime, here's yet another underwater render but this time with 4 nudibranchs I made in Wings (mostly before the shoulder injury).
A further curvature attempt of mine. Hope you like it. I started simply with red and blue to fiddle out the suitable amount of curvature. Thank Savage64 for this idea.
@goshtac: First Thanks a lot for the two links for generating bricks and pavers. Second: My two cents to your interesting path of life scene. I could not figure out, what the black rectangled shape is in the middle of the path. Is it a hole or is it the shadow of the hovering cube? Though IMHO I tend to think it is a hole. I could not figure out, too, how far the cube and its counterpart the black shape with the hole are? First I thought they are far away, but I am not sure. If they were far far away near the horizon, it would give your scene, at least to me, a rather gloomy meaning. You know, path of life... a black hole at the end... ;-)
@Sean Riesch: That is amazing complex scene. Very well done. Have you modelled the castle and the bridge with Bryce?
@franontheedge: Get well soon!
@Franontheedge, interesting underwater scene. I wonder if the tubeworms might benefit from some slight variation in angle to make them look a little more organic? It's usually at this point where I wish Bryce had DAZ Studio's Dformers so I could bend them slightly. I'm glad to see your underwater scene is progressing. I have one in mind myself that I got all excited about, until I suddenly realized the idea made it look like The Little Mermaid, which (while an entertaining film) I definitely did not want my render to look like, so that idea has been stalled on the back burner for a while. I'm not sure where I'm going to go with it.
@electro-elvis, I like the rusty gear and cube material.
And no, for the most part the castle is Grobburg Castle, and the bridge is mostly from the Bryce 5.5 Content kit, although there are a few primitives and basic shapes mixed in to add detail or pieces here and there, and materials may have been modified and/or swapped around between items of content, and multiple copies or pieces of them have been added which might change the overall appearance a bit.
I took a long break from Bryce, but decided to see which version Bryce was up to. I think the last version of Bryce I used was either 5 or 6. Saw version 7 was available and thought "Cool!" This is my first render in 7.
@hansmar - now that's a cool terrain.
@Bruce - nice story and the render makes one think what the cube and flat cube may mean.
@mermaid010 - interesting results from your curvature experiments.
@Sean Riesch - this dragon scene is really very elaborate. That needs a lot of patience to set up. There is so much to discover.
@GussNemo - thank you. The right side up is the same just inverse. :-P
@franontheedge - thank you. There is no need for a lattice because the upper and the lower side are the same. You can turn a terrain around by setting either X or Z rotation to 180 degrees. In this case, you'll have to disable Solid for the terrain. Another option is to Invert the terrain in the TE. If you do it this way, you can keep it Solid. An unsolid terrain sometimes lets light leak through it - which may be desired or not.
Your underwater scene improves with each itteration we see here.
@electro-elvis - Your curvature results are more than just attempts. Looks great.
@pagsovation - welcome to Bryce and this forum. Your render looks inbteresting and makes me ponder what it could be.
Distractions galore... While playing with curvature and applying to terrains I somehow got sidetracked into making some animal print type materials. I think it happened when I started making basic noise patterns in the TDE to test what the filters did.
Neither of these are finished yet, but still... is anything ever? :cheese:
Interesssting
Plodding along with the DTE curvature filtering. Here's what I've been doing. Slow going.
Edit. Meant to say, another set of high resolution terrains by Horo.
They're wonderful David. Each of them is an amazing terrain.
@goshtac: very nice story and great poster. Would like to see it with a golden plane, must be even more remarkable.
@mermaid010: Nice terrains, specifically the last one, with the slimy textures!
@Sean Riesch: This is turning to be a very great scene. You might want to provide a bit more depth into the scene by adding a larger dragon(head) in the left front (so that it does not block the view too much).
@franontheedge: Wonderful underwater scene. I like all those animal forms you created. And you should know not to play rugby with the house! It is much too strong, unless you have a very good team. Hope you recover soon.
@electro-elvis: wonderful textures on these boxes. Real old looking.
@pagsovation: Welcome! And what a great start render. The vagueness of this ‘vault’(?) is really intriguing.
@TheSavage64: I like zebras and tigers. So keep experimenting with the DTE, because you are getting nice textures!
@David Brinnen: You make great scenes from all those wonderful terrains! I detect the same sky in two scenes :)
Finally, I could not resist to make a terrain myself. Actually there are two terrains, because I copied the first terrain, deleted large parts, put the other slightly above the first one (only at the front of the scene) and used it to get a higher frequency of the same texture in the front of the scene. The frequency worked very well further from the camera, but needed some tweaking up front and this is the way I tricked it.
I used a sky I used before, with modifications, which was made after a tutorial by David Brinnen (of course), but I was too lazy to find a link, so you’ll have to search for yourselves.
Seeing some really great terrain work here. SO inspiring.
However No fancy terrain work in this render really.
Inspired by the Fionavar Tapestry (a trilogy of books loosely based on Celtic mythology)
Ceinwen the green is a Goddess and Dave (or Davor the Axe as they call him) is from Earth, transferred to FIonavar (The First World) by magic and lost on the plains amongst the Dalrei.
"No man of Fionavar can see Ceinwen hunt and live"
Thanks Horo and hansmar for the welcomes. Not sure what the render is myself, I just start and creative. It's based around the crosses in the scene.
@Miss B, thank you. The terrains were made by Horo by what magical means I know not.
@hansmar, thank you also, yes the same sky in all five! One of Horo's HDRI's 3bridges_SD.
@Pam, beautiful render and now I've battled with Poser myself, I have yet still more respect for your skills! Oh the hours I've sunk into editing @#!& CR2's - ah! Anyway, glad to be back in Bryceland for today. It was sunny out. But I stuck indoors and spent my time wandering virtual worlds.
@pagsovation, well I wasn't sure what it was, but it was interesting never the less, and looked like it should be something! And so yes, welcome and please do show us more of your mysterious renderings.
Thanks, David. Btw, love your renders, very inspiring. Checked out your store too, some killer stuff I might have to buy.
Be sure to check out http://www.bryce-tutorials.info/bryce-tutorials.html if you are after guides and on my own channel I'm edging up to 300 video tutorials covering various topics https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbrinnen I don't host ads so you can dive straight into whatever.
@Dave - those striped textures look very promising.
@David - great work on the terrain material front. Keep it up.
@hansmar - that terrain looks great. Good idea about combining them.
@Pam - beautiful render. It looks as if there were a hint of Orton effect on Ceinwen but on closer examination, there isn't any.
But it is looking good and makes one think what the heck it could be. So you've got the attention of the audience.
By the way, since you're new to Bryce, you might find some stuff on my website (see sig) which may be of interest.
@franontheedge: That underwater scene keeps getting better and better. Adding the nudis really looks nice, though the ones I've actually seen are a bit lower to the sea floor. I'll post those new boxes when I can.
@electro: Those boxes, and gear, and flooring, really look nice. Curvature filter really brought things to life, sort to speak.
@Pagsovation: Welcome to the forum, and that's a really neat image.
@Dave: Both of those images look great. Both look just like fabric.
@David: You're doing some amazing things to Horo's wonderful terrains.
@hansmar: That's a very appealing terrain. And a nice tip about how it was created.
@Pam: Lovely scene, as usual.
Thanks for the comments on my last abstract and terrains.
Sean- really like the castle render
Franontheedge: the underwater scene keeps looking better.
Electro-elvis: nice lovely render, love the materials used on boxes and floor.
Pagsovation: a really neat image.
Dave: interesting results in the DTE
David: Wow wonderful results with Horo’s awesome terrains.
Hansmar: the terrain is lovely; thanks for mentioning about saving the sky. I should do that. I normally only save the objects, materials and textures, that I make using David’s tutorials.
Pam: beautiful scene, as usual.
Thank you folks. Well this one has taken some figuring out. Trying to get the channels to play nicely across the entire terrain.
Edit: a few hours later with a bit of tweaking.
amazing terrains !
David Brennen:
"P57_example_scene2f " is really talking to me, there is a perfect combination of elements in that scene that I am very taken by.
chohole:
your foliage and lighting is always so well done! beautiful
Thank you. First of the next four is that same terrain but re-skinned. The others... are others. So to speak. Got a bit exotic with the last going for an effect.
@David: More beautiful, especially the ancient building look of the images in your 415 post.
Great image, @hansmar! Tried that technique a while back myself - never finished working with it, but here's my attempt, using three terrains...
Edit: If I remember correctly, I think this was a tiled terrain - I copied the terrain in the foreground and "carved away" the two mountains closest to the camera.
Hmmmmm, maybe we need to pick his brain. ~just kidding Horo~
@everyone else - I'm seeing some really great looking terrains here. One of these days I'll learn a trick or two to make such quality terrains myself. Well, one can hope anyway.