Beginning Bryce Tutorials © Robin Wood 2003

Beginning Bryce

This series of five tutorials was originally used for the Beginning Bryce course I taught at Eclectic Academy. If you would prefer to have an instructor as you go through them, you can still have one there. Vic Haynes is now teaching the course, and it's only $20 for the full six weeks.

However, in case you want to go it on your own, I'm providing all the material from the lessons here.

	Lesson 1; The Bryce Interface Starting the program, and setting up the screen size Wireframe vs Rendering 3D Space; X,Y and Z axis Bryce Views and Simple Camera Manipulation - The Control Palette Making Objects Appear - The Create Palette What You See - The Display Palette Picking Objects to Manipulate - The Selection Palette Manipulating Objects - The Edit Palette Convenience Objects - Using Presets Simple Rendering
	Lesson 2 ; Something to Render (A child's pull-toy.) Seeing the Primitives in Complex Objects Moving, Resizing and Combining Objects Naming Objects to Prevent Confusion Later Aligning Objects Locking and Unlocking Objects Grouping and Ungrouping Objects Duplicating Objects and Groups Boolean Operations Using the Attributes Dialog Using the Material Editor to make a Simple Material Importing Objects from Other 3D Programs Smoothing Imported Objects Download Lesson Two .sit files (131.8KB) Download Lesson Two .zip files (132.4KB)
	Lesson 3 ; Somewhere to Put It Using the Terrain Editor to customize the Terrain Generating Elevations Using the Terrain Canvas for complete control More of the Material Editor Changing the colors of Preset Materials Adding your own Presets Using Textures in the Material Editor Using the Tree Lab to customize Trees Metaballs, and How to Use Them Making Symmetrical Lattices Making Rocks Download Lesson Three .sit files (606.6KB) Download Lesson Three .zip files (487.3KB)
	Lesson 4 ; Bryce Weather Multi-Replication Color Families The Sky & Fog Palette The Sky-Lab Placing the Sun and Moon Star Fields Clouds, Fog and Haze Specifing Sky Color Bryce Rain (two ways) Using the VCR Controls Using Picture Objects Making things Glow Download Lesson Four .sit files (526.5 KB) Download Lesson Four .zip files (468.0 KB)
	Lesson 5; Lighting Ambient Glow and True Ambience The Light Lab Volume Lights Gradients on Lights Gels on Lights Light Falloff Types of Lights available (Radial, Spot, Square Spot, Parallel (Cylinder and Square) Half Angle of Spotlights Indoor lighting - making candles glow, spotlights indoors Importing Objects for Presets Sunlight indoors Fill lights Using materials to enhance lighting Polygon free outdoor scenes through windows Light streaming through windows Download Lesson Five .sit files part 1(3.4MB) part 2 (7.3 MB) Download Lesson Five .zip files part 1 (3.6 MB) part 2 (6.9 MB)
	Lesson Six; Building a Scene Flipping objects on Axis Modifying materials in the Deep Texture Editor Explaining Alpha channels Modifying grouped objects without ungrouping them Centering objects for ease of modeling Multi-replicating objects Skewing objects Blended Materials (AB blending and ABC blending) Using Light Effects Volume Textures Shading Modes for Materials Interaction of Sunlight and Light Effects Faking shadows with Ambience Maps Transparency in Bryce; Ray Depth and Total Internal Reflections Rendering Options - Optics Using objects as Volume Lights to save rendering time Depth of Field Render masks (Object, Distance and Altitude) Download Lesson Six .sit files (12.2KB) Download Lesson Six .zip files (12.5KB)