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Hacker-X	Jun 12 2005, 08:19 AM
Dedicated Member Posts: 512 Group: Admin Member #50 Joined: March 6, 2005	go into Bryce click the Create text at the top click the sphere make it an oval by clicking the Y axis and moving it up, select the sphere, press and hold SHIFT+ALT+d type this: Quantity 20, Offset 0 0 0, Rotate 10 12 10, (leave the rest alone click the little check mark at the bottom of the window) feel free to use your own numbers for the muti replicate! press CTRL+a to select everything (don't deselect) now press CTRL+m to go into the material lab click the arrow that points to the right (the arrow is beside the shape) now goto simple and fast, click mirror hit enter change the diffusion color to black, now hit enter again you should now see a reflective abstract image in the preview box up at the top left corner of the screen, if not just try the steps again! click the arrow pointing right at the top of the screen to the right of the word sky and fog, scroll all the way down and select the black background, press Enter, now if you were you were to render now you wouldn't be able to see anything, we'll fix that right now deselect now click the create tab and select the sphere click the little square to make the sphere bigger (this is the little square i mean _\|) make the sphere so big that it can fit those bunch of spheres inside of the sphere that you've just created position the larger sphere so it fits all those smaller spheres inside of it CTRL+click the sphere select sphere 22 hit CTRL+m and give it the same material we gave it before click the yellow sphere (in the create tab) click it about 8 times now position these spheres inside of the bigger sphere, this is how you get the abstract some light once thats done click+drag the XZ camera to zoom into the larger sphere (mouseover some of the controls to the left of the screen, it'll show you what they are) now your ready to render, press the larger sphere on the left to render the sphere is right under the camera TrackBall good luck! feel free to post comments or questions! ps. feel free to submit this tutorial to Pixel 2 Life or to any tutorial indexers, please let me know if you are lost in this tutorial!


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