1st attempt in bryce 5 (pic)

[touser]

hi all this is my 1st picture using bryce i made it today, was just wondering what everyone thought of it and if anyone could give me any tips to make it better?
http://members.home.net/touser3/oceanstorm3smaller.jpg

[RedDeathDrinker]

Looks very good.

Can't offer any tips or hints, as I've never used Bryce........maybe a bit more land, bit less water?

[JigPu]

Man..... I wish I could have Bryce..... My best friend has it, and I absoultely love to use it when I go to his house.

Suggestions..... I'm no expert in Bryce, but here are a few settings that I know can make images look better (but of course increase render times). What were your times BTW?

Turn on Volumetric World
Increase Antialias depth (I think you can do this)
Bring up Rays per Pixel

Oh yeah... My mom says that the third wave looks too big for how far it is from the camera. Can you change the perspective a little?

You should have seen the pic I made on Bryce before.... Really pretty, and maxed out every single setting on the options screen. After about 2 minutes of rendering, it was only about 1/3 of the way done with the first line of the first (really blurry) pass. I think it would have taken about a week to render just that one picture!

JigPu

[touser]

thanks for the reply's guys, jigpu you are correct that only took 6 minutes to render because it was 3am and i didnt want to put it on the highest quality render..it takes one hour to render one that big on my machine..and that pic was scaled down in photoshop for the forums it is normally 1152 by 864 :) that may be why the waves seem a little bit out of porportion?..and the more land..it was meant to be an island..maybe i should use a different texture for the island to make it look fore rain foresty? thanks again for the reply's i appreciate it