Some Retro Old 3D Goodies - The Pain That Was Grim Machines>>>

BellicoseBloke

BellicoseBloke

Various stuff... Starting with Bill Munns who did some excellent Bryce work 25-26 years ago on a fairly grim machine

Here's the stats for his Braj-Mahal...

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So the night version took 5 days & like 6 hrs?... I remember the 400 mhz days, lotta hourglasses spinning...

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Here's the page with some awesome tutorial JPGs as well-

https://web.archive.org/web/20010414085807/http://bryce-alive.net/munns/brajmahal.html


Here's Munns Digital University-

https://web.archive.org/web/20031011134708/http://www.billmunnsgallery.com/techniques.html


Incredible usage of Bryce which I always found hard to model in...

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BTW... For Nendo Modelers Bryce (Especially Bryce 4 the last serious version) likes the 'Per Face' UV mapping that Nendo creates when you enter the paint room, not alot of other packages like per face mapping...

Here in Bryce 4 I just loaded my BiBeast model then loaded the textures then wham-o... No issues-

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Just added a bit of noise to the material to make the skin look more like an orange skin...

A couple years ago I bought the 'Realworld Bryce 4' Book which is the thickest book I have now... Tons of info...

Here's some Bryce animations from it-

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Checking it looks like my Maya 4.5 Bible is slightly thicker than Realworld Bryce 4... Next down is Inside trueSpace 4 then inside LightWave 3D 6 which is damn near same thickness... Big-ass books one can now buy 'on-the-cheap' as they are considered 'obsolete software'... Harumph!!! Many of these were 40-80 bucks new....
 
Here is Planetary Traveler (1997)... First full length CGI Animation Film to have been done on standard desktop computers... It was done in an early alpha of Bryce 3 which was the first version to have animation... Contributors mailed their zip drives in...

 
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