Bryce 3D

  1. Platforms, Price, and Company
    • PC (Win9x/NT), Mac (PowerMac)
    • $199 for Corel Bryce 4.0
    • Corel (Bryce formerly distributed by MetaCreations) http://www.corel.com/
  2. Applications
    • Bryce is a 3D environmental rendering, modeling and animation tool primarily used for creating and rendering landscapes and various realistic terrain/water/skies to be used in conjunction with other products, such as Photoshop, RayDream, etc. This tool can also be used for creating panoramic videos of the 3D scene using Quicktime. The easy interface of Bryce allows for photorealistic scenery to be created by novices to advanced users.
  3. Examples/Samples
  4. Functions
    • Modeling
      • Objects: 3D Primitives, fractal terrain meshes, pre-defined terrain objects
      • Transformation: translation (Reposition), rotation (Rotate), scaling (Resize), clone (Copy/Paste)
      • Editing and Manipulations: vertex manipulation (to perform transformation), Group, scatter (Disperse)
    • Rendering
      • Camera: position movable
      • Lights: shadow, radial light, spotlight, square spotlight, parallel light
      • Materials: Texture mapping, Bump-mapping, pre-defined or importable material textures
      • Render: Anti-aliased, Ray-tracing
    • Animation
      • Keyframe based
      • Quicktime Movie or QTVR for repositioned camera
    • File Formats
      • Import
        • 3D Formats: 3D Studio (.PRJ)/(.3DS); AutoCAD (.DXF); Direct X 3D (.X); Heightfield (.HF); Haines & WTK (.NFF); LightWave (.LWO)/(.LWS); Portable Greyscale Map (.PGM); TrueSpace (.COB)/(.SCN); USGS DEM (.DEM); USGS SDTS (.DDF); VideoScape (.VSA); VistaPro DEM (.DEM); VRML1 (.WRL); Wavefront (.OBJ); World Construction Set (!ELEV)
        • 2D Formats: BMP; JPEG; PICT; Adobe Photoshop; Targa; TIFF
      • Export
        • 3D Formats (Textured Terrain Objects): 3D Studio (.3DS); AutoCad (.DXF); DirectX 3D (.X); Heightfield (.HF); Haines & WTK (.NFF); Infini-D 4.0 (.ID4); LightWave (.LWO)/(.LWS); MetaStream; Portable Greyscale Map (.PGM); RayDream Studio (.RDS); RayShade Height Field Export; trueSpace (.COB); USGS DEM (.DEM); VideoScape (.VSA); VRML1 (.WRL); Wavefront (.OBJ);
        • 2D Formats: BMP; Adobe Photoshop; PICT; TIFF
      • Plug-Ins allow for more formats
  5. Web Resources