Brycetech: Bryce has a Woodie Part4
| Look at the tree to the right. Notice how the leaves are
very small and the bark appears to be very small in texture. This adds to the
impression that this is a very large tree. A forest full of trees like the ones to
the right would be far more interesting than accepting the default settings from Bryce. |
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| Don't forget that within the preset materials, there
are some materials that are premade for your trees. |
Additional considerations:
- You can not perform boolean operations on a tree.
- You can not export it nor can you bend its trunk...the best you can do is to
skew it. (Rotate it slightly on the X or Z axis then rescale it on the Y axis)
- If you want to remove the roots, you will have to apply a transparency map to
it.
- Bryce5 trees are MUCH smaller in file size than imported objects.
- You can apply any image as a leaf to the tree. (Ever really wanted a money
tree? Simply scan a dollar bill and use it as a "user" leaf texture!)
- To use more than one kind of leaf at the same time: Duplicate the tree..make its
trunk transparent..then apply a different leaf.
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- Choose User Leaf from the tree lab
- Choose Image for the texture in the tree lab
- Set the transparency and diffuse color to the first channel
- Apply "blend transparency".
- Use a picture texture.
- Use a mask in the second channel (white for visible and invisible)
- Apply the changes
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Continue on to an indepth discussion of using the trees in Bryce.
Site Note:
The new tree lab in Bryce offers a lot of variety and
will most definitely require experimentation. You may wish to check out some other
sites on the internet that have some tree information.
- Todd's
Leaf Notebook contains a lot of picture leaf textures that you can use in your images
to add realism.
- Corel's
Online Quicktime Tutorial is a quick walk through of the features in the Bryce Tree
lab.
- B5 Tree Club is a neat little
club for users to swap ideas for making better trees in Bryce 5.
- Leaf
Creation Tutorial contains a step by step way of creating your own realistic user leaf
textures.
- Rocky 3D includes a lot of free
downloadable models. The ones of interest in this case are the "leaf"
models. Very useful for those "leaves on the ground" images.
This is not meant to be an all inclusive instruction on
every possible way to have made the final image or produce the desired results.
Bryce offers zillions of wonderful ways to replicate, multireplicate, reposition,
etc. in its powerful interface. Experiment!
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