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Bryce Tutorials - 3D Text - To create great looking 3D text in Bryce 3D all you need is a paint program and Bryce; there is no need for a separate 3D

Bryce Tutorials - 3D Text Step 1 - In your favorite paint program create a 512 X 512 pixel image in grayscale mode, with black as the background color

Bryce Tutorials - 3D Text - Create great looking 3D text in Bryce 3D

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Bryce Tutorials - ABC's of Architecture - There are two lattice objects in the picture above. The two-toned material was done with ABC mode in the material lab. I used these arches originally in this image.

Bryce Tutorials - ABCs of Naturalistic Marbles - Discusses ABC mode in the material lab, specifically geared towards creating marbled stone materials.

Bryce Tutorials - Art Refractions Tutorial - According to Snell's Law, when light passes from one transparent medium to another, it bends. Light rays change direction as they go from air into the glass, and they change direction again when they exit the glass spheres and enter air.

Bryce Tutorials - Another Brick in the Wall - Why a tutorial on how to make walls? In any regular 3D application, making realistic wall is fairly simple. You simply have to apply a 2d

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Bryce Tutorials - Bat and Fairy Wings - Create the effect and texture of Fairy wings.

Bryce Tutorials - Boolean - This is the Bryce Boolean Tutor tutorial page, where users of Bryce 2 and Bryce 3D can come to pick up a few tips and

Byce Tutorials - Bryce Bubbles - Create Bryce Bubbles

Bryce Tutorials - Bright Eyes, Moist Lips - When you are rendering a close-up of a Poser face the eyes and lips become more prominent and look very flat.

Bryce Tutorials - Bryce Terranoids - This page will show you how to make strange shapes like the ones on the right, with the terrain editor of Bryce 2 or Bryce 3

Bryce Tutorials - Brycian Roads - This technique can carve horizontal roads onto your Bryce terrains. See part two for an explaination of how to make

Bryce Tutorials - Brycian Trees - The more I worked on a tree as an example for this tutorial, the more complex the whole thing kept getting.

Bryce Tutorials - Breaking Glass - The object of the exercise is to produce an image, say of a wine glass with a piece broken out of it. For brevity and clarity the stem and base are not shown.

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Bryce Tutorials - Calyxa's Miracle Trees - This explains step by step how to create a "realistic" tree in Bryce using two intersecting symmetrical lattice objects. Just how realistic your tree will look will depend on how you draw it, what materials you assign to it, and where you place it in your scene.

Bryce Tutorials - Camera Animation - Need to create a walkthrough? This tutorial from Brycetech tells you how.

Bryce Tutorials - Clipart and Bryce - Note that while this tutorial does construct an old iron gate, it is not about "how to make an old iron gate.

Bryce Tutorials - Creating and Animating Rain in Bryce - Clear and well presented tutorial brought to you by Pixel Arcana.

Bryce Tutorials - Crescent Moons and Planets - Create a sphere, move it up off the groundplane and enlarge it (the example is about 50 units in size).

Bryce Tutorials - Calyxa's New Brycean Trees - There are notes below concerning some of the more important Deep Texture Editor tricks involved in the branch material. If you are already familiar with the Deep Texture Editor, you may find enough information here without downloading the sample branch.

Bryce Tutorials - Clipart and Bryce - This tutorial talks about using clipart as a source for creating Bryce objects with symmetrical lattices.

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Bryce Tutorials - Disco Light Ball Effect - This is an attempt to reproduce the effect of the reflected lights from a faceted and mirrored ball as is found in Discos and Dance Halls.

Bryce Tutorials - Direct Path Editing - Twist Path on Point: Press-Hold 'Alt', Click-Drag on Point Continuity of Path on Point Press-Hold 'C', Click-Drag on Point Tension of

Bryce Tutorials - Deep Sea Diving - Under water scenes using terrains and caustic effects.

Bryce Tutorials - Deep Texture Editor - Excellent 7-part tutorial by Walter Vandijck takes you step-by-step through the DTE.

Bryce Tutorials - Disco Ball Effect - This is an attempt to reproduce the effect of the reflected lights from a faceted and mirrored ball as is found in Discos and Dance Halls.

Bryce Tutorials - Dishes and Plates - Create a Terrain and click on the [E] button (arrowed) to enter the Terrain Editor. Click on New.

Bryce Tutorials - Dragon Eyes and Alpha - I use this for the picture texture to get the eye color. It was drawn in a paint program.

Bryce Tutorials - Dressing up the DXF - This is the plain grey Narn Fighter without any texture mapping as downloaded from Mateen Greenway's model pages.

Bryce Tutorials - Dragon Eyes and Alpha Channels - About how to use alpha channel transparency to create a glowing eye effect.

Bryce Tutorials - Dressing up the DXF - Perfect for saucer shapes. The procedure does not produce the same effect on grouped objects created in Bryce.

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Bryce Tutorials - Egyptian Columns - These Egyptian columns are inspired by a photograph of a room of the temple of Karnak.

Bryce Tutorials - Exact Sun and Moon Locations - You would like to place the sun or the moon at a certain location of the picture, let's say exactly at the tip of a mountain? Then you will

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Bryce Tutorials - Fake Reflection of Light - Raytracers don't reflect lights in a mirror. Of course you can see lit objects in the mirror, however, light falling on the mirror is

Bryce Tutorials - Family Affairs - Sometimes it comes quite handy, if you use families to select a group of objects which should be animated together but can not be grouped:

Bryce Tutorials - Flat Roads - This tutorial covers the creation of roads which parallel a given elevation along your Bryce terrains.

Bryce Tutorials - Fractal Terrain Tutorial - This tutorial covers some basics for using Bryce 4's fractal terrains, including how to use the tile feature and how to work around the tiling gap bug.

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Bryce Tutorials - Galactic Backgrounds - A great tutorial that will show you to make a galactic outerspace background with Bryce.

Bryce Tutorials - Galactic Backgrounds - Select Sky & Fog. Click on the Sky Options inverted triangle and select Atmosphere Off.

Bryce Tutorials - Gemstones from Pyramids - Create a pyramid - use the squat one. Click on A to bring up the Attributes dialogue box. Make positive.

Bryce Tutorials - Gemstones from Pyramids - Create beautiful gemstones with this neat tutorial

Bryce Tutorials - Glass - These operations were carried out on the PC Windows version of Bryce 3D.

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Bryce Tutorials - Importing Poser Textures - Learn how to import a Poser texture to an object.

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Bryce Tutorials - Making Chains - Making a length of chain using a Multi-Replicated Torus is easy - just follow these steps

Bryce Tutorials - Making Chains - Create a Torus. Click on the E button to Edit it and set the diameter to about 170 or whatever you wish the thickness of your chain

Bryce Tutorials - Making Craters - Create a Terrain. Click on the E button to enter the Terrain Editor. Drag the red spot of the brush colour down to black. Drag the

Bryce Tutorials - Miracle Trees - This explains step by step how to create a "realistic" tree in Bryce using two intersecting symmetrical lattice objects.

Bryce Tutorials - Mixing Textures in Bryce - In this tutorial, you will learn how to mix bitmap and procedural Bryce textures to make realistic terrain materials.

Bryce Tutorials - Moon and Stars - Select Sky & Fog.Click on the Sky Options inverted triangle and select Custom Sky. Change the sky colour to black

Bryce Tutorials - Moon and Stars - Position moon and stars with this tutorial.

Bryce Tutorials - Multiple Vanishing Points Perspective in Art - Bryce 5 Multimple Vanising Points Perspective Tutorials

Bryce Tutorials - Multiple Vanishing Points Perspective in Art II - How to Produce perspective with 5 vanishing points

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Bryce Tutorials - Neon Lights - Fast and Easy way to make Neon Glows like this......and some more interesting.

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Bryce Tutorials - Object Specific Anti-aliasing - Sometimes a texture get's blurred during antialiasing, so it would be nice to switch it off just for this object - right?

Bryce Tutorials - Organic Modeling - organic modeling in metacreations' bryce The BryceHog! Click on the image for a larger version. BEFORE WE BEGIN Before we start

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Bryce Tutorials - Picture Cube - Make a picture cube, which is a cube with a different picture on each of its six faces

Bryce Tutorials - Picture Cube - To make a picture cube, which is a cube with a different picture on each of its six faces, is not as simple as creating a cube in Bryce

Bryce Tutorials - Pouring Water - Create a Symmetrical Lattice. Enter the Terrain Editor - select New - select Grid 512- select

Bryce Tutorials - Pouring Water - Create the effect of pouring water in Bryce.

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Bryce Tutorials - Rainbows by numbers - By using combinations of numbers you can position a rainbow to your liking

Bryce Tutorials - Rainbows by Numbers - Choose a sky preset. I chose the second of the presets called Midsummer afternoon. Check that the haze value is about 70.

Bryce Tutorials - Rendering Wireframe Animations - To control the flow of an animation, sometimes a wireframe test render would be nice - right? Hold your hat, you actually can do this!

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Bryce Tutorials - Shells and Ram's Horns - A tutorial to create shells or Ram's Horns in Bryce.

Bryce Tutorials - The Secret Texture Library - A quick tour of the Material Lab pointing out some features you may not have found yet. It also explains how to access the Texture Library and how it can be used to help you compose new materials.

Bryce Tutorials - Simple Render Tool - Simple Render Tutorial - Abstract art, is essentially a collection of similar images, duplicated multiple times, each duplicate being sized and angled differently, so that when all combined, they produce a very interesting image.

Bryce Tutorials - A Simple Waterfall - Most of us have tried to make a waterfall with one terrain and the result is never quite what we wanted, but by using the Erode button the result becomes quite acceptable. This is the effect we are going to achieve - a single terrain for the waterfall.

Bryce Tutorials - Secret Texture Library - The sole purpose of this tutorial is to show where the Texture Library is and how to use it. I've read through chapters 8 and 9 in the Bryce

Bryce Tutorials - Simple Comets - Create a round parallel light by holding down the Control key and clicking on Parallel Light

Bryce Tutorials - Shells and Ram Horns - Create a torus. Rotate it from the vertical to the horizontal (hold down the shift key whilst rotating to rotate in 45 degree steps)

Bryce Tutorials - Streaming Light Rays - First you need to build a room, well not really a room, just two walls and a ceiling with the front two sides open to the elements.

Bryce Tutorials - Star Look - Create a star look in Bryce

Bryce Tutorials - Streaming Light Rays - Learn how to create the effect of light coming through an open window.

Bryce Tutorials - Swooping Roads - This tutorial covers the creation of roads which can go over hills and through the valleys of your Bryce terrains.

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Bryce Tutorials - Terrain Editor - The terrain editor holds half a ton of easter eggs... I will cover only a few here: There's a extremely cool new fractal terrain

Bryce Tutorials - Texture Mixing - Learn how to mix bitmap and procedural textures to create realistic looking terrains - a really good tutorial.

Bryce Tutorials - Texture Presets - Textures are the basic building blocks of materials. Wouldn't it be nice to have a preset menu for textures like the one you have for

Bryce Tutorials - Trees that are Actually Realistic - Here is a quick and easy tutorial to make great looking trees. The first thing you do is create a simple, symmetrical lattice.

Bryce Tutorials - Torus Editor - You think that the torus editor is quite boring? Okay, then lets have a closer look here... First note that since 3.1 the torus editor

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Bryce Tutorials - Using Pictures in Bryce Materials - Pictures are used as texture components in Bryce materials. They can provide the coloring, bump, or "value" of any channel seen in the material lab. And the other channels don't have to come from the picture, they can be assigned globally or come from a procedural texture or another picture.

Bryce Tutorials - Unity Concept - Unity is the default state for an object. If you press the "=" key, then the object is reset to unity. Unity includes size & rotation.

Bryce Tutorials - Using a Picture as a Material - Simple and excellent tutorial.

Bryce Tutorials - Using Negative Lights - Black holes are reality in Bryce 3.1. The update has a strong source of antiphotones... if you're a physicist, please forgive me

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Bryce Tutorials - Volume Lights - Step 1: Create a room with two walls and a ceiling. We used Boolean operations to cut four squares out of one of our walls to simulate

Bryce Tutorials - Volumetric Falling Snow - The beauty of using a volumetric material for falling snow is that the nearer an object is to the viewer the fewer the number of snowflakes are shown before the object.

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Bryce Tutorials - Web Textures - Step 1: Start Bryce, set your new document size to 320:240 resolution. Then create a box that is approximately 200(x) 5(y) 200(z).

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