Tropical Island Chain (My 10th Bryce Animation) (720P)

[davidjjdj]

AHHH how do you get the sandy beeches?

[DVLIAC]

@davidjjdj create a water plain, create a mountain, erode it, flatten it, apply a sand texture, lower it a bit into the water, and you get a beach. :P

[davidjjdj]

@DVLIAC THANK YOU!!! lol i finally god it now very nice job by the way!

[DVLIAC]

@davidjjdj np. Thanks!

[GreenXstream]

U mind if i use this ? :D

[DVLIAC]

@GreenXstream hmm depends what for? lol. :P

[GreenXstream]

@DVLIAC For this one :D

/watch?v=Ex3WNr63rKw

Just say if i must delete it ;D

[DVLIAC]

@GreenXstream nah its fine, just maybe put a link in the description back to this video?

[IceDancer2014]

Hi,

I'm doing a project about an island for geography

I have to create my own island and use three components: Plains, Plateau's and Mountains.

Quick question, did your island consist of these three things? Message back soon

[DVLIAC]

@IceDancer2014 Hmm mountains, but don't think really any Plains or Plateau's...

[blahnupunk1]

Great. Lotta time put into that :-)

[DVLIAC]

@blahnupunk1 Thanks! =-)

[tonydanis]

wonderful work!!*****thank you my friend!!!

[DVLIAC]

@tonydanis Thanks! =-)

[greg1850]

This is absolutely spectacular!

[DVLIAC]

@greg1850 Thanks! =-)

[MrNAM1976]

render time = ?

[DVLIAC]

@MrNAM1976 Approx. 129 hours :P

[Tomasin19]

Can you use this creation on other 3D animation programs (Poser, 3DS max, maya, etc)?

[DVLIAC]

@Tomasin19 Not quite sure, I've never learned any of those other programs. If they can import Bryce scenes then I guess you could, but other then that, as far as I know, Bryce only lets you export the models as different formats (like 3ds max and stuff), so you could export the terrains and stuff, but not the whole scene. :P

[Apeshavenotails2]

Beast. I liked it.

[DVLIAC]

@Apeshavenotails2 Thanks! =-)

[pholinc]

I love it. I am inspired to create again.

[DVLIAC]

@pholinc Thanks! =-) That's good to hear. :-)

[HDM640]

Whats song? Thanks!

Nice animatioN!

[DVLIAC]

@HDM640 It's Stellar by D2K He has all his music uploaded to acidplanet just go there and search d2k204

[Thomas1952]

Wow!!!! I watched this in full screen mode and it was fantastic. Great lighting, great depth, great everything. Great job. I have a couple of Bryce animations posted here on Youtube, but not even close to your quality. I'm looking forward to more.

[DVLIAC]

@Thomas1952 Thanks, Glad you liked it! =-) I just took a look at your channel and looked at a couple of your animations and they're pretty neat, they look way more complex then this one.

[petop3]

thats really good. Like the waves sounds :D I sometimes work with Bryce, but this lookes far better. What is the music called?

[DVLIAC]

@petop3 Thanks! =-) The song is called "Stellar" by "D2K" or "D2K204". The music was made a long time ago by an old internet friend of mine who seems to have dissappeared. His music page is here: acidplanet. com/artist.asp?songs=402238&T=­9572 (just remove the space) if you wanted to d/l it or hear his other music, but it hasn't been updated since July 08...

[TheKjex]

wow, mountain looks real, btw i followed ur tip on how to make beach sand, but still cant make it look right.

[DVLIAC]

@TheKjex Thanks. =-) hmm, so you generated a water plane, generated a mountain, eroded the mountain, lowered its height, streached its length and width, put the bottom below the water a bit and changed the water to a non transparent texture and it didn't look right? hmm those are all the steps I did so idk why it wouldn't look right. perhaps it needs to be streached more or height adjusted or eroded more or brought under or out of the water more? :-\

[TheKjex]

@DVLIAC i will deal with that later :) now im rendering full hd animation which takes place in space :)

[DVLIAC]

@TheKjex cool, when it's finished, if you decide to upload it, send me a link! =-)

[TheKjex]

@DVLIAC sure will :)

[stark096]

i just started with bryce.more than 20 trees is a mind numbing ordeal

[DVLIAC]

@stark096 ya lol. I originally had even more but it kept crashing Bryce. :P Although I got Bryce 7 a couple months ago and haven't had a chance to do anything except mess around a bit in it and it seams a whole lot nicer for working with trees and stuff compared to the older versions.

[DVLIAC]

@DVLIAC You just basically set up a couple trees then select the terrain you want them on. Then click the instancing button and it gives you a top view of the terrain and a paint brush and you select the percent you want of each tree and how many you want then just paint them on the terrain and it does all the work for you... could have a full forest in a couple min. =-) Should be fun when I get around o making another scene. :P

[mcasual]

It's great we really had a good sense of the size of the mountains and trees

render of about 1 frame per minute means you got a good computer

[DVLIAC]

@mcasual Thanks! =-) Ya my computers pretty decent, gets the job done fairly quickly. :-)

[Ultraraidem94]

Man, how did you do the beach?

[DVLIAC]

@Ultraraidem94 I just generated a mountain, eroded it then lowered the height and stretched it to the size I wanted.

[Ultraraidem94]

@DVLIAC Hmm I see..but how did you strech it?

(sorry I'm a new bryce user....)

[DVLIAC]

@Ultraraidem94 umm go to top view (2) and select the mountain and drag the black dots around the montain to pick your size, then go to side view (3) and adjust the height by draging the top black dot to either side.

[AndreTruks]

Awesome! =)

[DVLIAC]

@AndreTruks Thanks! =-)

[DVLIAC]

@jpandros In total it took around 129 hours to render. :P

[THogosha]

Really Great scene. Very well done. 

[DVLIAC]

@THogosha Thanks! =-)

[Katharine1212]

This is so nice! I just bought Bryce, and I hope I'll be able to do something like this one day.

Kat

[DVLIAC]

@Katharine1212 Thanks! =-)

[dapinkpwner2008]

Very, very nice

[DVLIAC]

@dapinkpwner2008 Thanks! =-)

[peeperman99]

how do you actually animate instead of making still pictures?

[DVLIAC]

@peeperman99 The easiest way is to click the little circle on the bottom right of the screen to bring up the time line controls. Then just select the camera and hit the + next to the key. Then move the time line slider ahead a few sec. Then move your camera to where you want it to be in a few sec. Then click the + next to the key again.Now there should be a line between where your camera was and where it is now. this line is the path your camera will follow.

[DVLIAC]

then again, move the time line slider ahead a few sec, move the camera, then hit the + again. A new line will be added to the last and continue doing this until your happy with the camera path. Then go file>>animation setup and set a fps. 15 is default but 25-30 is your standard movie fps. the higher the fps, the smoother the animation will be but the longer it will take to render.

[DVLIAC]

After you set a fps, click the check mark to save it, then go to file>>>render animation ans set where you want to save it to then click the check mark and it will start rendering the animation. Just make sure before you start rendering that you in the camera view mode (1) and not like a top down view.

[peeperman99]

@DVLIAC okay thanks! :D

[zaneM100]

if it is the bryce animation thing did you download or buy it ad were?

[DVLIAC]

@zaneM100 My Bryce? It is "Bryce 6.3" and I downloaded it years ago. :P

[zaneM100]

what do you make it on

[DVLIAC]

@zaneM100 Like what computer do I make the animations on? If thats what your asking, I make it on a Windows XP computer with a Intel Core 2 Quad q9450 @3.2GHZ, with 4gb ddr3 1600 ram, and 2, 512mb nvidia 9800gtx video cards. (although gpu's really have no effect on Bryce, because it pretty much does everything on the cpu :P)

[renryu]

This is really awesome. My one suggestion, because it would make this even better, would be to add roll the the camera as you take turns instead of leaving it flat on horizon plane. You use the pitch and yaw to show off the landscape but it would really enhance the feel of flying to roll the top of the camera toward the turns.

[DVLIAC]

@renryu Thanks! =-) Hmm, next time I make an animation, if I remember, I'll give that shot and see how it turns out. :-)

[sightlightx]

very well done!

[DVLIAC]

Thanks! =-)

[greg1850]

Wow! This certainly makes tree a slow poke vid! This is very well done! Nice work. Im impressed. 5*****! I know a little bit about Bryce, so I can see the work here.

Great news on Bryce7. I downloaded the beta but have not had the chance to load it up yet. I hope to be impressed. Greg.

[DVLIAC]

Thanks! =-) I'm probably going to wait until the're totally finished Bryce 7 before I get it. I don't really feel like being a beta tester. :-p