Real World Bryce 2

By Susan A. Kitchens

A complete refernece guide to MetaTool's 3-D landscape-generating software, this book provides in-depth information about all of Bryce's abilities, explains all the undocumented features and shows... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201694190
• ISBN13: 9780201694192
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great examples, awesome artwork

If you've ever wanted to really understand Bryce and how it works, this is the book for you. It really helped me streamline the process of making cool worlds in Bryce. The color examples & awesome artwork are a nice bonus. Every feature in covered in great detail, far beyond the scope of the original Bryce manual. The author presents advanced features, showing how to make undersea worlds, rivers, & waterfalls using Bryce & Photoshop.She devotes over 100 pages to working with texture. Other chapters cover working with other software, rendering and realistic nature imagery. There is even a chapter on making alien world scenes. The CD also has some great examples including rendering tests & tutorial Bryce files to play with. There are also 100's of spectacular images of different worlds created by over 80 different artists.

The book you need to really understand Bryce

If you've ever wanted to really understand Bryce and how it works, this is the book for you. It really helped me streamline the process of making cool worlds in Bryce. The color examples & awesome artwork are a nice bonus. Every feature in covered in great detail, far beyond the scope of the original Bryce manual. The author presents advanced features, showing how to make undersea worlds, rivers, & waterfalls using Bryce & Photoshop. She then devotes over 100 pages to working with texture. Other chapters cover working with other software, rendering and realistic nature imagery. There is even a chapter on making alien world scenes. The CD also has some great examples including rendering tests & tutorial Bryce files to play with. There are also 100's of spectacular images of different worlds created by over 80 different artists.

Essential book for anyone starting with Bryce

Although this is about Bryce 2, the book is essential for Bryce 3D also. It is one of the best books on any computer software I have ever seen. It is particularly good for beginners since it covers the basics you need to know before you can accomplish much with the program. It explains the underlying concepts in a way that turns you quickly into an expert.

Buy it to take your Bryce work to the next level and beyond

This book is the 'definitive manual' of Bryce. Susan Kitchens is absolutely fanatical in her assault on the hidden and deep features of Bryce 2. She will show you things that may have taken you years (if not forever) to figure out on your own. If you wanna go deep, and I mean DEEP into Bryce 2, this is for you. Bryce artists are making a living producing 3D images right now. This book can help you to reach the professional level of 'Bryce Master' in a shorter time than you thought possible. So, if you're tired of doing the same old scenes, now you have a mentor to guide you. After all, experimentation is fine, but life is too short to keep reinventing the wheel.

This is THE only book you'll need with Bryce 2

This book is absolutely incredible. After going through the manual, this Bryce 2 neophyte was not actually comfortable with his knowledge. But no sooner did I pick up this book and start reading, did things just start making sense to me. There's so many cool things you can do with this program, that this book is a MUST to have. It's clear explanations have really enhanced my knowledge.