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Very new to Bryce, but i would like to put a light in a lighthouse.

I have managed to add a light but can’t get it to spread out like a lighthouse would.

Any help would be appreciated.

I haven’t done Bryce in a long time but I think you want a volume with cloud noise and some ambiance assigned.

In the Light Lab, set the spot light to Visible Object. Try either surface (renders faster) or Volume.

sort of like tthis ? I used a radial and a spot.

Or maybe fake it with a cone and a texure, like the old Br5 “lit rays”, only this time I need to play and get the fall off on the texture going in reverse.

Thank you Gedd, Horo and Chohole for your advice.

Will now go and play and see what I can come up with.

More like this one: http://www.bryce5.com/details.php?image_id=563 it should fade into the distance. If you go rather for a look shown in chohole’s picture, get the free Streaming Rays from here: http://www.bryce5.com/details.php?image_id=1144 curtesy by Denny Markovic aka Frozencry.

You could also try a spotlight as a visible object and use “ranged” in the light lab to set the distance of visibility

Cheers
GG

I have used the info given here and posted my image in the AUGUST New Users Contest WIP Thread. Thank you all for your help.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/5084/P60/#66314

OK I know I’m a bit late to this party, but I wanted to see if I could find an alternative way to the ones suggested.  I tried no end of volume light and materials (but they stop working when HDRI are loaded) - so that was no good… and well, cut a long story short, this is what I came up with.  It’s not exactly suited to beginners, but it might be of passing interest to some of the other posters.
 
Bryce lighthouse “light beam” effect - a 15 minute tutorial by David Brinnen

Dang, you make it look so simple David.

I wish I’d have had that tutorial last year when I did this one.

Trust me Dave, if it was simple, I wouldn’t have nearly bitten my mouse mat in half in sheer frustration.  First Bryce can crash, then Camtasia can crash, then the video rendering can produce a file that crashes and then the whole maddening cycle begins over again.  And failing all else, youtube can just decide to sit with the video at 95% uploaded for hours at a time - apparently not doing anything very much.  Anyway, I hope you can follow the tutorial OK and it helps you in the future - even if it can’t help you in the past.

I am going to have to find time to go through that Tutorial, super end result there David.  I guess it is not going to work in my normally used version of Bryce though.

Lost me at the beginning! Will have to play with lights a bit more.

chohole - 07 August 2012 04:19 AM

I am going to have to find time to go through that Tutorial, super end result there David.  I guess it is not going to work in my normally used version of Bryce though.

There are ways and means, if you send me a stripped down source file with the lighting setup you imagine using I could probably figure something out as a compromise.  But really, all things considered, Bryce 7.1 Pro…  Can’t you sell a kidney or something, or better still, someone else’s?

wilmap - 07 August 2012 04:29 AM

Lost me at the beginning! Will have to play with lights a bit more.

Yeah sorry Wendy, it was more of an alternative solution than an easy practical one.  But since all the easy options had gone, I wanted to offer up something else.