03-30-2007, 03:57 PM
Bryce 6 has a lot of new terrain creation options and the sky-lab has been reworked and is very cool but sometimes confusing with Sun/Moon placement. It also tends to blow up when importing big Lightwave objects with textures. They released 6.1 a couple of weeks ago and it was a major improvement on speed on Intel Macs. The base image above has roughly 5M polygons and took about 4 1/2 minutes to render on my MBP. When I got 6.1 the time dropped to about 80 seconds. Since DAZ bought Bryce they have added much tighter integration with DAZ Studio. Animations from DS are supposed to go right into Bryce. Haven't tried it yet so I'll see but overall I'm pretty pleased with software I got for $6.
FYI, same thing with Poser 7. 6 seemed to be pretty slow on my Mac but ran pretty well on the PC. Now 7 screams on the Mac at about the same speed as the PC. They've added a bunch of new figures mainly to support the new hi-res stuff that's coming out of DAZ and a lot of other places.
FYI, same thing with Poser 7. 6 seemed to be pretty slow on my Mac but ran pretty well on the PC. Now 7 screams on the Mac at about the same speed as the PC. They've added a bunch of new figures mainly to support the new hi-res stuff that's coming out of DAZ and a lot of other places.