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*Product Name: Skyreach
*Copyright 13 Of June 2011
*By: Razor42 aka Ben Foster
*Contact: Contact me on renderosity.com - Razor42
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Skyreach is a 2D background generator for use in Bryce 5.5 and up. The Skyreach system is a large floating sphere segment and an anchoring control sphere. The control sphere placed at world centre allows acurate placement of the segment in 3d space while containing distortion to a minimum. A planetary body is then projected onto the segment for the final render. Transparency hides the rest of the geometry and a photo accurate illusion is formed. Its possible to add a number of these to a scene, change the size and position in the sky, 

The sky reach systems allows the use of all Bryce Skies. This allows the user to quickly and easily compose space or sci-fi scenes. 

It is possible to use Skyreach with IBL or a Sky Dome. 

Also contained is a user manual with detailed descriptions for using the skyreach system with 3 detailed tutorials. Including Creating a spacey terrain an introductory tutorial showing some of the more hidden functions of the terrain editor, How to create a space scene and a tutorial for editing and creating your own texture maps for use with the Skyreach architecture.

Use the default planets or create your own using any number of fantastic gimp or photoshop tutorials.

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System Requirements:

PC and Mac compatible
Bryce

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Ownership Statement:

All of the content in this package was created by Razor42 aka Ben Foster,
and may include derivatives of the following merchant resources:
Public Domain Nasa images were used in the creation of the texture maps. All images are free to use commercially.

Full terms of use are listed at http://www.nasaimages.org/Terms.html

Full terms for "The Blue Marble" images of earth are available at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/useterms.php

Visible earth is http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/)

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Installation Instructions:

Install as per normal for Bryce Objects and skies.
Place the Skyreach Planets.obp file into your Bryce folder under eg Bryce 6/Presets/Objects/User

Place the Skyreach Skies file into your Bryce folder under eg
Bryce 6/Presets/Skies/user

Then launch Bryce and find them in your object and Skies creation tabs respectively

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Usage Tips or Limitations:

Control Sphere must be set at centre of scene to avoid distortion.

If any Black is visible at edge of planet increase transparency setting in Bryce till it fades

Rainbos are currently not supported because of a clash with the transparencies causes rainbows to fail to render correctly.

Unfortunately the preview in the Object tab will not display properly this has no effect on the object once added

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Files Included in the Product:

/Bryce
--/Skyreach Objects
----/Skyreach Planets.obp
--/Skyreach Skies
----/Skyreach Skies.bsk
/Documentation
--/License.txt
--/Skyreach_Readme.text
Skyreach_Manual.pdf
/UV_Map
--/Sky_Arc_UV.jpg