Re: CHAT: Finally! My conlang is now up on the Web...
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 9, 2000, 4:34 |
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Barry Garcia wrote:
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> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >What does anybody know about Bryce? It's an image-making
> >software system that is supposed to allow you to make extremely
> >sophisticated computer images.
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> Bryce mainly does alien type landscapes. It's nice but the images look
> artificial.
Well yes, but I prefer to say "stylized." The image I downloaded for
my desktop background is extremely haunting: dark hills surrounding
an ocean lit up by a great orange sun, a shipwreck full of shadows,
the silhouettes of wheeling birds. It is not photographic; it looks
like a painting. I didn't do it; somebody else did and let me download
it.
A program I prefer for doing landscapes is called Terragen:
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http://www.planetside.co.uk (or uk.co, i always forget which ending). I
> dont think it does anything except landscapes, but I dont have it. THe
> only drawback to terragen is it doesnt have an option for adding trees,
> and also, your landscapes usually look like tundra or alpine (but if you
> mess witht he bump maps it has, you can simulate the look of distant
> trees).