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To avoid having to recreate the rain material every time you want to use it, you'll need to add it to the Bryce "Materials Library". Go the Create menu at the top of the screen and click on "Edit" to switch to the "Edit Menu".

The Edit menu.

Making sure that your cube with the rain material is selected, click the small arrow next to the word "Edit" to open the Materials Library.

The Bryce Materials Library.

In the preview window, you should see the block with the rain material in it. At the bottom of the Materials Library, you should see a down arrow next to the word "Installed". Click the arrow to switch to the "User" library. This is a good place to store your own materials. Click "Add" to add the rain material. Bryce will give you a dialogue box to let you give the texture your own name and make a comment about it. Once you've filled this info in, you can click the check mark at the bottom of the dialogue box to add your material to the library. Once you've done this, you can make it rain whenever you want!

That's it for creating the material. The next two parts of this tutorial will deal with modifying the material and animating it.

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