I finally have my own copy of Bryce (Now owned by DAZ3D) so I don't have to borrow my son's copy anymore.

Bryce is a pretty cool program, you can use it to create models, render just about anything, and it has some awesome texturing capabilities. Although it seems pretty much designed to do landscapes, I also see it used to render poser figures a lot.

I wrote a tutorial about describing settings for Renderosity, and the setting I described in my examples was a winter scene. When the time came to make an icon for the tutorial, I pulled out Bryce, used a couple planes of cloud texture to get the effect of drifting snow, and used the tree creator to makes some leafless trees. I used a spotlight to give the effect of moonlight.

This image of the Goddess Racciman, was my first ever Poser/Bryce graphic. The girl is a Poser 4.0 figure. After posing the figure and painting her outfit, I imported her into Bryce so that I could render her floating over her world. To make a flat world, I created a terrain object, and used a greyscale map of Racciman's world to create a height map. The outside edges of the world were black, so that the square edges of the terrain object would be low and out of the way. The actual world used the lighter range of greys. I created a cylinder object, assigned a water material to it, and set it so that it's top edge was at the appropriate sea level. Then I used a black plane to conceal the bottom edge of the terrain object. Voila! A flat world.