Bryce: Where to Start?
In my opinion the official documentation for Bryce is not that great. With a program like Bryce, you need lots of details and pictures to show how to use the program.
I started off trying to click here and there, but found it both time-consuming and unproductive. I then completed David Brinnen's video tutorial "Bryce 20 minute beginners project - simple landscape". It was a very good tutorial and I was able to make something worth showing after completing the tutorial (see "Bryce 20-Minute Beginners Project - Simple Landscape"). I had to view parts of the tutorial numerous times, because David does not explain everything in detail. I then decided I wanted to complete his video tutorial called "Bryce shoreline - a 15 minute tutorial". I soon realized that I needed to learn more of the basics: cameras placement and object editing, including resizing, rotating and repositioning.
Luckily I ran across Robin Wood's webisite, which has lots of Bryce tutorials (text-based). Although they are written for Bryce 5 (and I am currently using Bryce 7), the first lesson about using the Interface has been very useful and there are no noticeable differences in the interface presented in the tutorial and that found in Bryce 7. After the first lesson, "The Bryce Interface", I feel that I am almost ready to try out "Bryce shoreline - a 15 minute tutorial" again, but I have decided to complete Robin's entire course - Beginner og Intermediate Lessons. I will update this aritlce to keep you update on my progress with these lessons,