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Please bear with me, this is my first mini tutorial on Bryce. After a couple of beers, I hope my spelling mistakes aren't too bad

Start Bryce, delete ground plane. Choose any sky that you want, you can always change this later depending on the effect, or hdri (optional) that you want.

1. Then choose a sphere and stretch it so you are looking at a type of oval. (along y plane)

2. Then swap your camera view so you can see the camera clearly from the top.

3. Keeping in the same viewpoint, move your camera so it sits on top of the sphere, enlarging the sphere so it surrounds the camera if you need to.

4. Choose a side view where you can see the sphere with the camera inside. Select camera by clicking on the gray down arrow between the shapes bar at the bottom and the animation bar.

5. Rotate camera around X axis ( the 3rd symbol under your edit tab). Then using the 4th symbol under the edit tab, move your camera in the up direction (y axis) so the camera is sitting at the top of the sphere looking down through the oval.

6. Choose your favorite mat for the sphere - if you need a whole heap, check out my links on this journal:

[link]

7. Click your camera view until you can see the mat show up. If you can't, the mat is too dark for the sphere. Most of the mats I make are for the purpose of the above tutorial (just change the color of the volume to whichever you like in the dte).

What I do is experiment with the camera views, pull the camera way back, bring it close, etc. I usually put a light in the middle, and/or a reflective sphere (also available at my freebie links), or toruses. You don't need to follow this tut completely, best of all just experiment and have fun. I usually do these if I really want to make something and might be stuck for ideas, or just something to wake up my brain. Best lesson I have learned with using Bryce is continually asking myself "what if". If you keep your mind with that statement and open all the time, you can achieve some wonderful things with this program. And any questions please don't hesitate to note me.

Description
Please bear with me, this is my first mini tutorial on Bryce. After a couple of beers, I hope my spelling mistakes aren't too bad

Start Bryce, delete ground plane. Choose any sky that you want, you can always change this later depending on the effect, or hdri (optional) that you want.

1. Then choose a sphere and stretch it so you are looking at a type of oval. (along y plane)

2. Then swap your camera view so you can see the camera clearly from the top.

3. Keeping in the same viewpoint, move your camera so it sits on top of the sphere, enlarging the sphere so it surrounds the camera if you need to.

4. Choose a side view where you can see the sphere with the camera inside. Select camera by clicking on the gray down arrow between the shapes bar at the bottom and the animation bar.

5. Rotate camera around X axis ( the 3rd symbol under your edit tab). Then using the 4th symbol under the edit tab, move your camera in the up direction (y axis) so the camera is sitting at the top of the sphere looking down through the oval.

6. Choose your favorite mat for the sphere - if you need a whole heap, check out my links on this journal:

[link]

7. Click your camera view until you can see the mat show up. If you can't, the mat is too dark for the sphere. Most of the mats I make are for the purpose of the above tutorial (just change the color of the volume to whichever you like in the dte).

What I do is experiment with the camera views, pull the camera way back, bring it close, etc. I usually put a light in the middle, and/or a reflective sphere (also available at my freebie links), or toruses. You don't need to follow this tut completely, best of all just experiment and have fun. I usually do these if I really want to make something and might be stuck for ideas, or just something to wake up my brain. Best lesson I have learned with using Bryce is continually asking myself "what if". If you keep your mind with that statement and open all the time, you can achieve some wonderful things with this program. And any questions please don't hesitate to note me.