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| ISBN10: 1584502177 |
| ISBN13: 9781584502173 |
| Publisher: Charles River Media |
| Pubdate: 06-02 |
| Pages: 450 |
| Weight: 2.6 lbs |
| List Price: $49.95 |
| Discount: 20% | | You Save: $10.00 |
| CBO Price: $39.95 |
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The Bryce 5 Handbook, W/CD
A tutorial-based approach to learning the powerful features of Bryce 5
by Shamms Mortier
Populate barren landscapes with far out vegetation; add clouds, sky, fog, or haze to your world; and learn how to animate environments these are just some of the creative possibilities you can explore with Bryce 5.Bryce 5 has evolved into a powerful 3D tool that combines power and ease of use and provides beginning to advanced users with a plethora of creative options. Using the guidance and tutorials found in the Bryce 5 Handbook, you can master the interface and new tools of Bryce, and take your 3D skills to the next level of mastery. Youíll find helpful insights projects, and practice with a variety of topics and tools, including Primitives, Trees, Metaballs, Booleans, Terrain Models and Objects, the Materials Lab, The Deep Texture Editor, Atmospherics, Lights, Animation, and more. With the hands-on tutorials provided in The Bryce 5 Handbook, youíll increase your 3D skills and learn how to reproduce the awesome power and reality of nature.
- Provides a tutorial-based approach to learning the powerful features of Bryce 5
- Teaches materials, infinite planes, animation, and modeling, including detailed coverage of Metaballs
- Provides helpful ideas for handshaking with other popular programs
- Includes and appendix on ìundocumentedî Bryce features
- Teaches innovative ways to create awesome textures for your Bryce worlds
On the CD:
Demos of Popular Applications
- Amapi 3D 6.1 (Win/Mac Demo)
- BodyPaint 3D (Win/Mac Demo)
- Illusion (Win Demo)
- Poser 4 and ProPack (Win/Mac Demo)
- Xfrog (Win Demo)
- Tutorial project files and images, materials, models, and textures
- Color images from the book
Shamms Mortier is the author of a variety of successful books on graphics, including the Amorphium Pro Handbook, The Poser 4 Handbook, and The Bryce 3D Handbook. 
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Amazon Reviews: Average Rating: 2.0
| An excellent handbook |
(10/30/2008)
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Excellent handbook, a classic about a classic. Bryce 5 deserves it. Clear like virtual water, it is the friendlier software handbook I ever met. Bryce is as simple as sophisticated, and it puts incredible versatile resources "at the surface" - but it is very, very difficult to handle with those powerful combinations of 3D modelling at once, or at all, without a wise guide. You really model "worlds", and the handbook is a kind of God-the-creator best friend. It teaches you all those exciting tricky features since the beginnig and makes learning Bryce a kind of adventure. |
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| Great handbook |
(8/13/2007)
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I recommend this handbook to anyone that wants to learn bryce 5. The tutorials are easy to follow it also has pictures to illustrate the tutorials for added help. It comes with a CD but i have not installed or used the CD. |
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| Worse than I expected |
(7/25/2006)
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Because the book has such bad ratings I really didn't want to take a chance on it, but there's precious little out there on Bryce and I take the view that a few good ideas or hours saved will pay for even a marginal book. No. Not this time. The book is almost unreadable so I can't swear that there's nothing good in it somewhere, but I looked for as long as I could bear the poor writing and the outright mistakes. A very disappointing waste of time. |
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| Just look at the cover! |
(9/7/2005)
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This book stinks like rotten radishes! Just look at the cover! This image is supposed to inspire us? As many of the other reviews suggest, Mr. Mortier is a Bryce novice. Don't waste your time or money on this book, buy the Version 4.0 by Susan Kitchens! Yes I know, it's an older version, but it all still applies, and the new things that aren't covered can be found by surfing the net. For more on Susans book, read the glowing reviews for her 4.0 book. The difference could not be more evident! I have been a multimedia producer for over 25 years, I know Bryce very well, it is a staple in my toolset, and Susan Kitchens book is my "Bryce Bible". Buy it, not this poor attempt. |
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| R. Shamms Mortier great artist but bad writer |
(7/20/2003)
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I have never seen or read anything from this author that is good in any way. He took a simple program and turned it into a nightmare I have been using Bryce for years (3 thru 5). I'm an advanced user and I couldn't make heads or tales of what he was even trying to say. If you want a good book that will start simple and work its way up the ladder get (Real World Bryce 4 by Susan Kitchens ) this is by far the best book out there and it works with 5 also not enough diffrence between 4 & 5 to let it bother you. |
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