Forum: Bryce


Subject: Corel's been bought, I think it's time to go for the jugular -all read please..

draculaz opened this issue on Sep 01, 2003 ยท 43 posts


brittmccary posted Mon, 01 September 2003 at 11:53 AM

Many, many moons ago I was introduced to the 3D world via a small but very efficient low end program called Simply 3D. I followed it to it's end; that was when Micrografx was bought by Corel. Corel burried the program. I thought that by buying it they would incorporate the modelling capabilities into Bryce. And as Electroglyph was wrong; so was I. Simply 3D was declared dead. In the years after this happened, I've written, written and written to Corel to ask them about the copyright to all the (very good) meshes that came with Simply 3D. Not ONE response. I asked about what others thought about it; should I (could I) give away some of these freebies, that I after a LOT of messing around have managed to get from the native S3D file format into .obj format. One of the moderators over there said that since Corel doesn't respond, that might imply that they simply don't know who has the ownership over these meshes, and that they might belong to the people who were once employed by Micrografx and made them. I dunno. I only know that Corel has had a gem in their hands, and that they blew it, - meaning Bryce now. I have no clue why they didn't market it more agressively, and developed it further. I have also been following WordPerfect since it was born a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, I was part of the team that translated the first versions to Norwegian. That too used to be a good product, - well, I use Word now. lol Anyways; what's you guys opinion about the old S3D meshes. Hubby says: "give them away". I say; Hmm... I certainly don't want to get into a copyright battle with anybody.