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BryceTalk Tues Sky Blue Discussion
July 27, 01999
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BryceTalk Tues Sky Blue Discussion, July 27, 01999
Part 4

Meta AuntiAlias: eeek!

Morpheus, your question?

eilif: just hurry with the log, k?

Morpheus: um in the sky lab there is a picture where a starfeild blends in with a normal sky is that possible

Meta AuntiAlias: let me check...

Morpheus: it's the starfeild thumbnail

Betty: (<--, not you pia)

Meta AuntiAlias: yeah....

i see what you mean..

anyone got any ideas about that?

Meta AuntiAlias: I dont' do TONS of starry starry nights

Mindscenes: something like this? http://www.mindscenes.com/sky1.jpg

dcb_: the best way is to make an image in the background semitransparent and use the default starfield...that works really nicely

Morpheus: argh somethign is goingsorry Screen just screwed up be back in 10 seconds

Mother: That is a GREAT sunset!

Clay: neat

Morpheus: sorry to leave there

bryce talk just went blank

Clay: http://www.phase2.net/claygraphics/planetary.html

Meta AuntiAlias: tho right now I'm playing with it... have a night sky, with stars.. have clouds in it....

but, i made the followign adjustments to make clouds appear better:

Morpheus: clay you never cease to amaze me

Meta AuntiAlias: adjust the frequency for number of "cloud puffs" to show, also adjusted (lowered) cloud coverage amount to make each "puff" smaller in size

Clay: :-)

Meta AuntiAlias: very slick, Clay

Clay: thanks

Mindscenes: cool clay, thanks Mother...

Meta AuntiAlias: okay.. so, TELL!

Morpheus: indeed

Clay: I use custom sky

settings

so that I could get a nice dark sky

I find stars tend to show a lot better against darker bchgrds

LOL

Mother: What about the haze effect around the stars?

Clay: you can get that effect by adjusting the haze

and some of that is photoshop too, but it can be done in Bryce

Mother: Kewel.

Heather: How in Bryce?

Clay: here's my newest image with an ominous kinda sky: http://www.phase2.net/claygraphics/Tayzhalyn.html

renato!: sweet

Clay: I put haze set at it's fullness on height heather

Mother: Screams for animation. :)

Clay: then adjust the other settings

Heather: When I do that it blanks everything out

Clay: it's something you just have to fiddle with for a while:-(

Morpheus: hmmm clay where have i seen that ship before :)

Heather: Yeah, I was thinking that.

Clay: it finally came down from space Morph

Morpheus: haha

Meta AuntiAlias: .....any other sky questions?

or....

Mother: Can I make a suggestion for a future topic?

Meta AuntiAlias: suggestions/requests/offers for topics for next week?

heh.. Mother, you read my mind! :D

Mother: :)

Clay: LOL!!

Meta AuntiAlias: (hmm.. usually my own Mother doesn't read my mind!)

Clay: ha!

Mother: I'm getting excited about this non-linear thinking thing.

How about non-traditional objects for creating scenes?

Meta AuntiAlias: topic: "Thinking non-linearly in Bryce" .. is that it?

Mother: That's it!

creativejuice: has anyone ever tried backligting a 2D mask

Meta AuntiAlias: or "evil strokes of Brycean genius"?

"or hacking Bryce objects"

Mother: LOL

Meta AuntiAlias: all right! cool! Now.. I'm looking for volunteers! :D

Mother: Inspired might be a better word.

creativejuice: for stars that is

Clay: here's an image that gives the illusion of volumetric world, but was done with the sun a spotlight and haze..http://www.phase2.net/claygraphics/sunchapel.html

Mother: Looks like we have our first volunteer. :)

Meta AuntiAlias: My Mother always is eager to volunteer me for things...

Morpheus: I'm actually working on a slightly slightly being the opritive word project that I could bring to the evil strokes of bryce genious topic

Meta AuntiAlias: so....

how about if I volunteer Mother, instead! ; )

(now *that* is what *I* call Evil Genius!)

Mother: <ack>

Uh, I think that I have an appointment that day. :)

Meta AuntiAlias: ; )

dcb_: for sphere clouds, rain storms, and to see how to use pictures as background skies...and lateral modeling...see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Program/3093/ tutor/bryce/tutorials.html

cant be here next week

Meta AuntiAlias: well... mebbe it's the following week! :D

Mother: ;)

dcb_: lol

Mother: I'm a real Bryce duffer. You probablyt want someone a bit more qualified.

dcb_: anyhow..all id have to say is there :)

Mother: I'm a real Bryce duffer. Bad choice for a volunteer.

Meta AuntiAlias: oh, okay, MOther.. I just couldn't resist um.. volunteering you. : ) Not to worry

Mother: Whew.

Close call.

Morpheus: I hate being late to a bryce tal what is this non-linear thing we're talking about

Clay: heheh

Meta AuntiAlias: dcb.. but there's more to it than the specific topics. .there's how you get to thinking that-a-way to get to the inspired-ness...

we're tossing around suggestions for future Bryce Talk events

dcb_: oh..heh

3d~?~elf: the genius behind the evil genius?

Meta AuntiAlias: I would like to have one on the Thinking PRocess for Working in Bryce...

or...

how you get the mad, inspired genius...

Clay: I pound my head against the keyboard for Color Ideas Susan LOL!!

dcb_: lol

Morpheus: I fI may make the modest suggestion of explosions

renato!: well that might lead to the madness part of it...

Clay: heheh

Meta AuntiAlias: I think that a panel discussion of genii would be good

dcb_: morpheus...explosions are also at my tutorial site

Meta AuntiAlias: genii for genius?

Alan: Offtopic (maybe) Will Bryce ever include font/text tools built in.

Morpheus: kewl

Meta AuntiAlias: also, I've had a request that is this: DEM DEM DEM DEM

Clay: fonts are evil

j/k

Meta AuntiAlias: so I want to have an upcoming talk that is DEM focused

renato!: dem dam dems

Meta AuntiAlias: er...

Morpheus: oh a b5 fan

Meta AuntiAlias: Thursday is the anything goes topic..

dcb_: yep morph

Mother: DEM for cloud formations! :)

Alan: ok

Morpheus: i thought was alone

Meta AuntiAlias: that's where all the requests and "What I'd really like in Bryce" things to be...

I want to get MetaJohn to host *that* one :D

dcb_: renato..i need ur home page addy

Meta AuntiAlias: ; )

3d~?~elf: http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/fonts.asp there ya go

dcb_: susan, I need ur home page addy to

Meta AuntiAlias: easy... www.auntialias.com

Clay: there will also be renegade bands of Brycers there.

Meta AuntiAlias: renegade brycers where, Clay?

Morpheus: *cough* lens flare *cough* *cough*

dcb_: tnx AA

Clay: heheh

renato!: uh, it's kinda lame right now dcb_

Meta AuntiAlias: okay.... future topics.....

Clay: cough* PLANTLAB sniffle

Meta AuntiAlias: not future features.. I can't do anything about those...

what I CAN do is to set up a chat about topics, tho

Clay: oh yeah

dcb_: i have a sorta working thing for lens flare in bryce..it required "building" a camera and putting the camera inside of it

renato!: building a lens for it?

dcb_: yeah

renato!: i c

Morpheus: I'm also doing a lens flare sort of thing

renato!: there's a topic... Renegade Brycing

or Guerrilla Brycing

dcb_: still want ur page ren :)

renato!: ok

Clay: LOL

Meta AuntiAlias: You want to be the special guest?

renato!: www.30fps.com

cover all kinds of absurd, out-of-the-box ways of using Bryce

Morpheus: but the results are sort of mediocre at bast

renato!: kind of like Sandy's nebulae

Meta AuntiAlias: right.. we were talking about that a little while ago...

renato!: oh sorry

<----catch up!

Meta AuntiAlias: I think it'd be a fun thing...

Clay: me too

Meta AuntiAlias: no problem.. only demonstrates how great it would be to talk about that... :D

Clay: Janak's idea of a post production chat would be cool too

renato!: (I'm working on a new site, dcb_)

Meta AuntiAlias: yeah... for those of you who are in the states, we'll do this on a Tuesday, and then tell you to take the rest of the day off for Bryceing.....

since you'll be so inspired by the disucssion that you'll want to try out wild new things!

Clay: LOL!!!

Mindscenes: LOL

Clay: MYST!

dcb_: this is way off topic..but its a MUST for brycers...this is a free program that will reclaim your RAM from bryce

Meta AuntiAlias: it is gettin' on time to wrap up here, tho....

dcb_: http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/index.htm

Meta AuntiAlias: which platform?

dcb_: only windows aa

Clay: awe sheesh!

dcb_: but its amazing

Meta AuntiAlias: oh <looks down, crestfallen>

Clay: sure burst our bubble

dcb_: ive ran bryce for days now..NO REBOOT!!!

Mother: Tea time!

Meta AuntiAlias: now that IS cool!

k....

thanks for the suggestions for topics...

dcb_: it reclaims the ram its not currently using

Meta AuntiAlias: IF YOU HAVE OTHERS

I WANNA KNOW!

susank@metacreations.com

Clay: k

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