bryce 4

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anybody have any luck using bryce 4 to make terrain? i can make some pretty nice looking stuff with it, but i import it into ut and it's inside out...i mean you fall through the terrain, but if you look up you can see the bottoms of the hills...it sucks that i can't get it to work though because it's a much better system the terraedit, no matter how much i like that little program.

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Eliwar

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try using the displacement modifier in 3dsMax. Bryce makes the terrain way too high in polys. Dunno why its non-solid though


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Trappey

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I may have an idea why it's doing this.

A simmillar problem i have encountered is when making a custom room/deco/etc, which within that one or more of the seperate brushes contains a re-sized brush. After creating the builder brush by intersecting/deintersecting it, (can never remember which does which :p ),the custom brush once added to my map very often contains areas where u fall through floors/walls etc.

Though i can't see how this could be the cause of ur problem /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif, it is however very good advice for anyone creating custom brushes not to re-size any of the seperate brushes before u intersect/deintersect it with a builder brush :p

Im sorry if u didn't understand a word of that, i did try, it is very difficult to explain in words.

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hunchback

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If the terrain is inside out, then the directions of the normals of all of the polygons are reversed (i.e. the polygons are facing inward instead of outward). I've never used Bryce, but it should have some sort of "flip normals" command that you can run before exporting the brush.

It's safest to avoid doing any scaling in UnrealEd, in my experience.
 

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huh?

what exactly is bryce? im guessing you make terrain out of it... but why is it better than terra edit? like, what features does it have?

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bryce is a 3d terrain modeling program, mostly used for making pretty 2d pictures and 3d fly-bys. it makes nicer terrain than terraedit because it is not limited to squares, but on the downside, it's not free...

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