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The Sky & Fog Palette
The Sky & Fog palette is where you'll set up the attributes of your environment. The palette uses visual controls in the form of thumbnails to help you see how changing the value of an attribute affects your sky.
The Sky & Fog palette's thumbnails let you set values for sky attributes.
The name of the control you're adjusting appears in the Text Display area of the Control palette. You can also use this area to help guide you if you prefer numeric precision, as when you are adjusting the setting of a control; this area displays the current control's value.
Each control has at least one color swatch along the bottom of the thumbnail. These swatches are used to set the color for a given sky attribute, like cloud color or fog color.
Next to the thumbnails are a series of controls that let you set the frequency and amplitude of clouds, set the position of the sun or moon, and store sky properties. You can see their effects in the Preview area.
The set of controls at the end of the palette does not have visual guides, but you can see their effects in the Preview area.
Working with Sky Lab
The Sky Lab button provides access to the Sky Lab dialog. This dialog contains controls for fine-tuning environmental effects like clouds, rainbows, and sun and moon rings. Click the Sky Lab button, which looks like a cloud with a rainbow, in the Sky & Fog palette to display the Sky Lab dialog. You can also click the triangle icon below the memory dots and choose Sky Lab from the menu.
The dialog contains three tabs:
- Sun & Moon contains controls for positioning the sun and moon as well as adding effects like rings and horizon illusions.
- Cloud Cover contains controls for editing cloud textures and setting up cloud animations.
- Atmosphere contains controls for rainbows, visible lights, and color blending.
You can preview your changes in the Sky Lab dialog.
- To view the different preview options, click the downward pointing triangle at the lower corner of the preview area. You can also change the camera position in the preview area.
- To change the position of the camera, drag the preview. To orbit around the scene, drag the preview in the direction you want to move the view of your scene.
Working with the Sky & Fog palette
The Sky & Fog palette has several settings that you can use to control how the palette affects your scene and how the sun tracks your camera view. You can also use the palette's memory dots to store settings as you experiment with different environmental attributes.
Using the Control Thumbnails
The thumbnails are visual guides, and they are also used to set the attributes of Sky & Fog effects.
To change the intensity of an effect:
To pick a color for an effect:
Click the color bar below the thumbnail. A color picker appears and your pointer changes to an eyedropper.
While the eyedropper is active, you can select colors from anywhere in your scene, or even different parts of the interface.
For more control after picking with the color picker, try Option-click/Alt-click to get the second color editor, switch to HLS mode and adjust saturation or lightness (less saturated colors can make for more realistic fog and haze effects), or you can enter numeric values if you need to precisely match specific colors.
Setting Palette Options
The Sky & Fog palette options let you link the palette controls directly to your scene. To link Sky & Fog attributes directly to your scene:
- Click the triangle icon below the memory dots at the right edge of the palette and choose Auto Update from the menu.
- When this option is enabled, every change you make to the Sky & Fog palette settings will start a render of your scene with the new sky settings.
Unless you have marqueed a small region to be updated, every change you make will begin a completely new render.
To reset Sky & Fog palette settings to their defaults:
- Click the triangle icon below the memory dots at the right edge of the palette and choose Reset Sky from the menu.
Saving Sky & Fog settings
The memory dots in the Sky & Fog palette let you store your favorite Sky & Fog settings. Using these dots you can safely explore many Sky & Fog configurations without losing your favorite settings along the way. Memory dots appear along the right side of the palette.
To save Sky & Fog settings:
All the current Sky & Fog palette settings are stored in the selected dot.
To switch to a saved Sky & Fog setting:
- Click on a full dot (full dots are blue). The current settings are replaced with the settings stored in the dot.
An active dot will be blue with a white point inside it.
To reset Sky & Fog settings to default:
To delete a saved Sky & Fog setting:
The uppermost dot cannot be cleared.
Memory dots are saved with the scene, but not between sessions, so you may want to save your favorite skies as presets before ending a Bryce session.
Randomizing Skies
Randomizing skies is a very powerful way of exploring possibilities you may never find any other way. When you randomize the sky all the settings in the palettes are replaced by randomly generated values.
To randomize your sky:
Remember, you can always return to the default settings by clicking on the top Memory Dot.
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