Forum: Bryce


Subject: Byce's future : some questions answered

catlin_mc opened this issue on Mar 23, 2003 ยท 43 posts


N2ChristTheKing posted Tue, 25 March 2003 at 1:52 PM

Hey Doc, I'm with ya whatever you do. I still can't think of anyone better to get a hold of Bryce, I'd love to see Bryce and MojoWorld work together, here are a couple of my concerns with it. We would need two different types of documents or workspaces, one a World level where you take all the power of MojoWorld and also a level where you work with a small area building a scene just like you did in Bryce. You'd still use the power of MojoWorld but on a much smaller scale. Might be implemented as a third type of terrain (Terrain, Sym Lat and Mojo or something). I think users would still want the functionality of Bryce's TE but also the amazing Fractals you've come up with. Another area would be the DTE, I know it's horrible implemented and somewhat designed but here again you'd need two options. I don't think many would upgrade to a new version if we lost all of the great textures out there now especially Jonathan's and Tony Lynch's and/or other product developers based on the DTE. What I imagine here would be another button next to the Picture Texture and Procedural Texture dots, this would be Bryce Classic or DTE Texture while MojoWorld Procedural would be the default. As for a UI redesign I think that may have to happen somewhat, but It wouldn't be to hard to adjust to if it was just colors and what buttons look like, but still having tools work mostly the same way. Things like the Track Ball, the rotate, scale and translate tools, things of those nature would have to work the same way. Over all I'm willing to adapt to a new program if Bryce must die, but I don't think that would have to happen. One more thing, have you thought about having a upgrade path from current Bryce users to Mojoworld, this would get more money for you guys to be able to get and work on Bryce as well as starting to get the users into the mindset of MojoWorld so the learning curve wouldn't need to be as steep when and if you combined implemented MojoWorld and Bryce together. Good luck and keep us updated, let us know if we can do anything and if you'd like us to write Corel what should we say? I don't want to end up hurting this deal by saying something wrong.