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Summary: good beginning to intermedite program
Review: This program is mostly intuitive and easy to use and learn. Great program to use when starting 3D graphics. I have used it (and bryce 4) for several years now, and my only complaint is my slow computer. Network rendering helps with that a lot though. THe problems would be: if you want complex lighting, this is a slow program; light does not act like it should (like off of mirrors and such); making a good texture adds a lot of render time; and this program ensures that it is the only thing you are using on your computer when it is running (locks taskbar in windows until you alt-tab to another program). Other than those things which I rarely have a problem with, I really like the program.
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Summary: good beginning to intermedite program
Review: This program is mostly intuitive and easy to use and learn. Great program to use when starting 3D graphics. I have used it (and bryce 4) for several years now, and my only complaint is my slow computer. Network rendering helps with that a lot though. THe problems would be: if you want complex lighting, this is a slow program; light does not act like it should (like off of mirrors and such); making a good texture adds a lot of render time; and this program ensures that it is the only thing you are using on your computer when it is running (locks taskbar in windows until you alt-tab to another program). Other than those things which I rarely have a problem with, I really like the program.
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Summary: Bryce 5 The Best ?
Review: This program is the best it is so versitle you can't find a way it will not work! It can be used for movies, c++ programs, you know all those great games take Riven for example the land scape could of esasly be created with bryce and then for player controls just pop it into c++ and bam you 60.00 to 90.00 dolar game. war crft three brobaly did not use bryce for any thing but did use c++ for the whole game I should know I have hacked it many a time. The anmation in Bryce is easier then flash, you can import any image you want, and you can export any image or movie, the only problem wit this amazingly great promgram is I can't get it for windows XP but it does work for mac
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Summary: Good Warez man
Review: Where to start...Corel Bryce 5 is [great], I like 3D landscapes or what i call "starescapes". Here is another creative powerhouse, the texture, material, bump mapping is awesome. Watch out for the tree lab though, scale it to large, add to much foliage..watch your PC choke to death on it(mine does)! The animations you can make are really cool as well, from simple, like a screw driving in to a 2x4, to complex, like a full length cartoon, Bryce 5 can do it, you can model cars from terrain plains, make "monsters" out of primitives, the boolean operations can make some wicked stuff. I highly recommend it, and I challenge you to master it..just when you think you have...guess what, you find something new you can do..your imagination and computer are your only limits! As Eric Cartman would say "kick [butt]"...oh yeah you can model him as well ;)
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Summary: SAME THING WE DO EVERYDAY PINKY! TRY & SIMULATE THE WORLD!
Review: Who needs, directors, special effect experts, location permits, robots, trained animals, movie stars, costume and set designers, etc.? Bryce 5.0 is all that in a single box and a heck of lot cheaper!But, there's a fairly hefty learning curve! Bryce isn't easy to master. It's easy to use once you learn, but starting out on your own is tough. I did, but I wish I would have spent the money to buy Susan Kitchens book on Bryce 4.0 first! 'Would have saved me hundreds of hours. I struggled with Bryce 4.0 in making prehistoric environments from geologic history and the plants and animals that lived in them. Bryce 4.0 easily makes phenominal landscapes, city-scapes, castles, or whatever, but just try to make a person or animal that will move through your scene and you've got your work cut out for you! But now thanks to Bryce 5.0's Metaball technology where basic sphere shapes better blend into each other my T.Rexs look like the could stand in for those in Jurassic Park. Hopefully Bryce 6.0 will make meta technology for all the building block shapes. Perhaps Corel will even embed a sound generator in 6.0 so you don't have to dub with other software? A lot of attention has been given to the new tree lab. As long as you don't expect the prefab trees to look anything like what they are named for you'll like it too. However as a forester I was disappointed! This is not to say you can't make fantastic looking sequoias, I'm just saying it's going to take a couple of hours of tinkering. On the other hand this is to be expected. You can't demand software "Industrial Light and Magic" powerful to be "Mickey Mouse" easy. What I'm most thrilled by is the power and beauty of the animation capability. Long gone are the days of frame by frame adjustments. To make my T. Rex walk all I have to do is carefully link objects together, then show Bryce what I want my dinosaur to look like at this place at this moment in time and than what I want it to look like at a new place, a few seconds later. Then pitch, yaw, roll, zoom the camera as desired or set it to auto track and the software smoothly animates the 100 frames in between. It short you make and put the parts together to make a body and Bryce will bring it to life and make it a movie star! I've worked with a lot of graphic design and animation software and all others (for public consumption anyway) pale by comparison. Here's the fun thing! Once you get to know Bryce, you'll see it everywhere. It's technology is used extensively in "B" Fantasy & SciFi movies and on prime-time Fantasy & SciFi TV shows. The old philospher once said, "Give me a fulcurm and a big enough lever and I could move the world." With Bryce 5.0 I say "Give me enough time and enough hard drive space and I can simulate the world!" at any time period.....
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Summary: Network Render, Metaballs, Tree Lab and much more!!!
Review: With the latest release of Bryce 5 I no longer doubt Corel's plans for our Bryce community. Corel did an absolutley wonderful job with features like network rendering which allows you to use multiple computers to render complex scenes and animations. New rendering options like premium effects which allows you to specify Soft shadows, True Ambience, and Depth of Field. A new light lab with amazing control over how light reacts in your scene (Distance, intensity, gels, etc). The Terrain Editor is now resizable for people like me who have a 19 inch monitor and would like to use all my realestate! My favorite features for Bryce 5 have got to be network rendering, tree lab, and the organic metaballs! COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! One thing I would like to see is a text creator of some sort (please somebody write a plug-in!)
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