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Getting the ducks in a row, continued

aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in New Users

Been quite the jigsaw puzzle, copying here and pasting there, I had some few "lost" folders to hunt down and put in what I hope are the correct locations.

At present, I don't see either a "David Brinnen" or "David Brinnen and Horo" subfolder anywhere. Nor do I have an Installed subfolder in Materials. Maybe these are some of Chohole's personal acquisitions, or am I missing something I should have?

Otherwise I think I am good to go! :)

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited January 2014

    Well I don't have everything I ever purchased related to Bryce installed, but I do have a Horo Wernli subfolder under Presets > HDRI

    There are also 2 subfolders under Presets > Scene Files, 1 for David Brinnen and 1 for David Brinnen and Horo Wernli

    Oh, and there's a bunch of Horo Wernli tuts under Presets > Tutorials, as well as a subfolder of David Brinnen's Tuts under Bryce7 > Tutorials

    As far as subfolders under Presets > Materials, I have the following:

    Architectural
    Atmospherics
    Contributing Artists - which contains 2 David Brinnen material files
    Effects
    Gemstoes
    Glass
    Metals
    Misc
    Pro Materials - which contains about 14 David Brinnen material files
    Stones
    Terrains
    User
    Vegetation
    Waters

    Those are all from the Bryce 7 Pro Content download that is part of the Bryce 7 Pro package. Hope that helps some.

    Post edited by Miss B on
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Yes, to a certain extent my set up is customised,

    But then I have been using Bryce for a long long time, so do get a bit blase about that, and forget to mention it. I started with Bryce 2, way back in around 1997 I think.

  • aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Wow, Bryce has been around that long?? That's 17 years now... No wonder you folks are so talented you can afford to get "blase"...

    Thanks Miss B, I'll go and check whether I have the same under Contributing Artists and Pro materials.... if I do, then I'm fine...

    Phew, I believe I need a hefty dose of chocolate too, by this time...! LOL

  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    I started with Bryce 4 in around 2000 or 2001 and upgraded to version 5, but then I took a long hiatus from it and Poser while I played in DAZ|Studio, so I'm just getting back to it this past year with Bryce 7 Pro. That's the reason I don't have much of all the Bryce items I bought years ago (and some more recently), installed yet.

    Cho's the Bryce authority (other than David and Horo of course), as she uses it for all her scenes. I usually only do outdoor landscape scenes without bringing in any characters from DS. I know, weird, but that's what I bought Bryce for in the first place. :coolsmirk:

  • aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:
    I usually only do outdoor landscape scenes without bringing in any characters from DS. I know, weird, but that's what I bought Bryce for in the first place. :coolsmirk:

    No, really that's not weird at all, or not to me anyway. A friend of mine got me interested in Bryce only over this past year;, before that I had not heard of it or was not aware. She does only abstract work and her pieces never contain landscape objects, everything is basic shapes or boolean shapes with textures and backgrounds, most of it very elaborate. Some of her meshes are imported from Wings 3D. Granted, basic shapes are easier to work with (or they seem so to me, thus far), but I can't imagine using Bryce only for that and never learning to make landscapes and maybe, eventually, figures of people and animals... Nothing like a figure of some kind to add perspective to a landscape...

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited January 2014

    SO totally agree with you there. I never got into the abstract stuff, although I do love some of the stuff they produce when they really know what they are doing.

    I only started with Poser in order to be able to put figures into my landscapes originally. I still have a habit of telling people that as far as I am concerned Poser and DS are just plug-ins for Bryce LOL

    Although nowadays I do produce renders that are figure studies, which are obviously set up first off in Poser and then transferred to Bryce to add the background and then render. I never render in Poser, well apart form the promo images for my textures that is.

    I do use Photoshop (other paint programs are available) to postwork my images quite often. Then I get images like this, which is not a typical Bryce type of render.

    W-F-S_3b.jpg
    780 x 1027 - 460K
    Post edited by Chohole on
  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited January 2014

    chohole said:
    I still have a habit of telling people that as far as I am concerned Poser and DS are just plug-ins for Bryce LOL
    ~ROFL~ Now that's a typical response I would expect from you. :coolsmirk:

    Although nowadays I do produce renders that are figure studies, which are obviously set up first off in Poser and then transferred to Bryce to add the background and then render. I never render in Poser, well apart form the promo images for my textures that is.

    I do use Photoshop (other paint programs are available) to postwork my images quite often. Then I get images like this, which is not a typical Bryce type of render.


    That's a truly lovely render Cho. I like the vignette masking a lot.

    As much as I like Bryce abstracts, I haven't done that many, but I wanted to see what it was all about. This is the first one I ever did.

    Click to see it unsquished.

    Abstract.jpg
    800 x 600 - 135K
    Post edited by Miss B on
  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Oh and before I forget, I don't get there as often as I'd like, but you should come visit the Bryce Discussion forum once you're settled in with Bryce --> http://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/38/

  • aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    SO totally agree with you there. I never got into the abstract stuff, although I do love some of the stuff they produce when they really know what they are doing.

    I only started with Poser in order to be able to put figures into my landscapes originally. I still have a habit of telling people that as far as I am concerned Poser and DS are just plug-ins for Bryce LOL

    Although nowadays I do produce renders that are figure studies, which are obviously set up first off in Poser and then transferred to Bryce to add the background and then render. I never render in Poser, well apart form the promo images for my textures that is.

    I do use Photoshop (other paint programs are available) to postwork my images quite often. Then I get images like this, which is not a typical Bryce type of render.

    I have Studio, but it isn't even installed properly yet...I'm still trying to get my tiny brain wrapped around Bryce! :P

    I use Paint Shop Pro v.7 mostly for post work. I've had that (given to me free by a friend) for 12 years now, it does very well on my old XP desktop, and it's just handy to jump into since I know it so well... I've lots of plugins there, most are 8BFs like what's used in Photoshop, those are normally very compatible with Paint Shop Pro... Your attachment is absolutely beautiful, even though I agree it does not look Brycelike.... it looks like a photo that's been given a painterly kind of filtering... lovely!

  • aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:
    Oh and before I forget, I don't get there as often as I'd like, but you should come visit the Bryce Discussion forum once you're settled in with Bryce --> http://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/38/

    Haha, yes I certainly will.... the New Users Forum is for 'getting acquainted' and getting our feet wet, it seems, in my humble opinion... I'm about up to my knees so far, hehe

  • aphrodites.flower.girlaphrodites.flower.girl Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Miss B said:
    chohole said:
    I still have a habit of telling people that as far as I am concerned Poser and DS are just plug-ins for Bryce LOL
    ~ROFL~ Now that's a typical response I would expect from you. :coolsmirk:

    Although nowadays I do produce renders that are figure studies, which are obviously set up first off in Poser and then transferred to Bryce to add the background and then render. I never render in Poser, well apart form the promo images for my textures that is.

    I do use Photoshop (other paint programs are available) to postwork my images quite often. Then I get images like this, which is not a typical Bryce type of render.


    That's a truly lovely render Cho. I like the vignette masking a lot.

    As much as I like Bryce abstracts, I haven't done that many, but I wanted to see what it was all about. This is the first one I ever did.

    Click to see it unsquished.

    Goodness!!!!!! that's awesome :ohh: Now that's what I'd like to be doing! Tried something similar a couple of times but it was just an ugly mess...the tutorial I was looking at, well there were two of them, but neither one had enough info for a raw beginner. In my latest effort I almost had a thing that looked like a big texture, not bad really....but the trouble was it was supposed to be a landscape! I'm not in control...yet...that's my main problem....

  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    The old adage, practice makes perfect, certainly applies. Take your time, and you will get there. :coolsmile:

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