Ever wanted to put a huge number of figures into a scene in Bryce? Or build a city? A while ago, I received a challenge to make an image of an army in bryce. Being on a PIII 450 with 320MB of ram at the time, it was obvious that this could not be put together in one single scene file. Hence I worked on the idea of building the scene in sections, rendering each part of the scene separately, and then joining all of the renders together afterwards in an image editor to form the entire image. 

Well that’s it. Instant army. Or cityscape. Or crowded city streets. Needless to say, rendering a scene in layers can be used for many other things as well as just making scene construction easier, including lighting effects, depth of field effects, atmospheric effects such as distance haze…etc etc.

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