What would you do?

February 17, 2003 4:46 AM from

I know the title is a little off. But here it is. What would you do if you can't get something to do what you want it to in a program? I would like to do lighting bolts in Bryce. I found one thing to do it, but it seems like the program that does it, the link didn't work for. Now I'm getting frustrated since I'm stuck on my project. And I need this somehow done. The reason I want to do it in Bryce is for the light effect and 3D look. Grrrrr. And it's almost done

Any Suggestions?
I've been all over Google, front and back. I think I even tried every link I could find on those link pages and they all point to the same freakin page.

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Reply #1 February 17, 2003 4:52 AM from

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I'd use another proggy.
Do ya stuff in Bryce, then add the lightning by 'hand'...

Reply #2 February 17, 2003 4:56 AM from

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Yea, I was thinking about doing it in Photoshop since I had that, but the reflecting light from the bolts is the problem. Umm, I guess if anything.. Do a 2D lighting bolt in photoshop, import it into Bryce, then add light effects from the light area..

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Reply #3 February 17, 2003 5:08 AM from

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I was gonna say that... or draw up a lighing strike in Bryce and put the effects you want on it.

Or use 3D studio and put a bunch of triangles together.

Actually you could do that in Bryce I think... a bunch of triangles; different shapes and angles to each other should do the trick.

Reply #4 February 17, 2003 5:20 AM from

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Interesting.. Never thought about Triangles

But I think I got lparser program to work.. It's a interesting program I got to say for being free. Programming envolved but heck, I'll learn quick. I took C++ before

Reply #5 February 17, 2003 5:42 AM from

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Weaksid try renderosity.com

http://www.renderosity.com

Reply #6 February 17, 2003 6:06 AM from

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Thanks for the link

Reply #7 February 17, 2003 8:06 AM from

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welcome

Reply #8 February 17, 2003 10:00 AM from

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you could also load up an acutal night time picture of a lightening strike into Photoshop, mask it rasterize it, copy the layer and create a new image and past
the layer into it as an transpar and then save it in a format Bryce will deal with.
Load it up do a save as so the origional layer trans is safe, and work from that angle and still have the layer if you need to start it again...

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Reply #9 February 17, 2003 1:06 PM from

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I think I decided to do it by hand in photoshop

I found several ways to do it, other then the way I orginally wanted to. But o'well. If I can get it to come out really good, I'll still be happy.

Reply #10 February 17, 2003 1:09 PM from

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thats cool

and it will be all you too

which is always a value added feature when compleation is reached

Reply #11 February 17, 2003 1:57 PM from

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I don’t have Bryce, but I could make a tutorial for an electrical arc for 3DS Max and you could see how I do it and use the same technique. I’ll need a few days to put it together and upload it to my site. I have been trying to make up a few and add them for later but if you want I can get this one done sooner, Let me know.

Reply #12 February 17, 2003 2:13 PM from

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Yea, I would like to know how if you could. No rush though. Take your time and make sure you cover everything. Usually if you rush, you miss a detail or two

Reply #13 February 17, 2003 2:44 PM from

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Ok no problem, here is my site http://dreamdesign3d.com/ click on Dink-n-Do it should be done in a few days, no later then this weekend depending how much time my son lets me have to do this lol

Reply #14 February 17, 2003 3:38 PM from

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Thanks alot

Reply #15 February 18, 2003 3:22 AM from

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This is just a 30 minuets ruff draft to a project I started. The arc is not done but this will give you an idea of what I was talking about. Let me know if this is kind of what you are looking for if so then I will add the text and all the pictures of how I was able to do it. Click on Dink-n-Do then click on Electrical Tutorial. To see the animation you will need DivX codec. Get it for free, on the homepage is there link.

http://dreamdesign3d.com/

Reply #16 February 18, 2003 3:33 AM from

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That's cool.. I think I got the lightning for at least the first make of the project. I'll be messing with stuff with it later on as I learn new techniques. There is actually a meaning behind what I'm creating. I'll try to explain some in my description if it makes it on here. If it doesn't. I'll at least post it over at DA so my friends can keep up with what I've been doing.

Reply #17 February 18, 2003 3:44 AM from

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So I guess that is not what your looking for? Sorry I could not be of help.

Reply #18 February 18, 2003 11:50 AM from

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If you still post it. I'll still learn it. Then maybe I'll still use it for the project. I could use it for other projects. I can't pass down knowledge

I appreciate the help and everything. Not too many people are like that. And that's really cool, looks relistic.

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