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Wow, really good work, what version of Bryce do you use? this would make a great tutorial, I have a free version of Bryce.

This has been rendered with Bryce 7.1 (that been available for some time for free) and I'm using in this image features that came with Bryce 6 and Bryce 7, but the scene is an easy enough to be rendered in all renderers when there's nicely setup studio lighting, so it would be possible to render it in ART, older version of Bryce (i.e. 5.0 or 5.5) or any other renderer.

Please can you show us more of your work with Bryce and Anim8or. Can you import a model with textures from Anim8or into Bryce?

There's not too many of them - when I'm making terrains I focus on procedurally generated features rather than modelled by hand. As for importing the models - it's great for rendering the static images as the Bryce does not allow to import image sequences or objects sequences (allowing only simple transformations during animation) + the renderer is not very optimized so animations are taking quite long (I'd say it's not much faster than ART is).

I've got one example of importing model made in Anim8or with textures into Bryce - it's the grass in the foreground of this image:

As for the tutorials for Bryce - those are great resources:
- https://vimeo.com/user5555030/videos
- /videos
There are some that are covering the way of importing objects with textures.

As for writing my tutorial on the process - I'm not feeling very confident of my abilities and that I have a good workflow to share with the other in the area of 3d modelling. I'm thinking about making a videotutorial in the future, but I feel that would need more preparations.

Do you mean using splines to represent the PHUR, or using splines to create the shape of the strand (lathing), or using splines to show how it should bend (extruding along its path)? The first isn't possible with ASL since ASL can't create splines, only read them.

I meant the third option - using splines as a guidelines, so read only would be sufficient. Something like described here: http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/16/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/index.html?url=files/GUID-4BCFC5E4-266F-43AA-A552-77CC241F9D1E.htm,topicNumber=d30e415332 Grow a strand at each spline according to its shape then interpolate the PHUR strands either in sequential splines (like in this document) - this would be great to create more complex haircuts, or another kind of interpolation: "interpolate everything that lies within the maximum distance" for more casual hairstyles.

The image shows 3 guide-splines. On the next subimage there is a first proposed interpolation method (according to the link posted) so that strands are interpolated between the 1st and 2nd and then between the 2nd and the 3rd guideline along the whole length. The third subimage shows the interpolation method interpolates between all splines having points that lie within the given distance. When the distance is greater then the spline segment is not considered 'neighbour' any more and there's no interpolation occurring between these segments.

What do you think about this idea?

The next sparkling thing - modelled in Anim8or, rendered in Bryce (with boolean operations at rendertime)
The animation:

+ bonus - the next project I'm thinking about:
- a trillion cut gem that will be main hero (rendered in Anim8or + GIMP postpro)
- some ART wip/preview renders
- intermediate render before adding the shank

Can you guess what that thing will be portrait of?

Whoah... Just visited the forum yesterday to notice this excellent news

Hey, would that be a problem to upload the video in left right side by side format to take advantage of 3D youtube options (switch l/r, cyan/red, etc...) so that person without glasses or with different ones could still watch it without downloading and editing?

Such videos look like that:
Guide on converting your 2D side by side to 3D: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic=1683985&guide=1680728&page=guide.cs

Nice work as always! Classy and realistic.
Is this commercial work or personal render of your design?

You're welcome, it looks that I didn't help much anyway because, you've already researched that topic more thoroughly than I did but one more idea comes to my mind...

Sometimes I saw parameters hidden for example in the names or at the least significant bit in the non standard place. Did you see any mangled letters at the end of the material's name for example? Does Anim8or load correctly the mode only from files exported by itself or also from created by other apps? Is the loader/engine written fully by you or just a closed library?

I assume there's no other quirky place the loader might try to look for the parameter, and you don't have to set the mode explicitly in the engine and the mode is saved somewhere in *.3ds file by Anim8or. Then I'd suggest differential test that should show the location:
- create cube with the material with 'decal' mode
- export to *.3ds
- change mode to 'darken'
- export to *.3ds
- compare files bit by bit

Good luck with finding this flag.