"money making scheme on DAZ's part"

*Well, yeah, other than producing 3D content, they are in the business of making as much money as possible, as is any business.

"They seem pretty hush hush"

*At least they communicate to us, something Corel never, ever did. And, in their business with competitors, you have to be quiet until a date of release, just the way it is. ;o

"All the cool stuff we want" (bones&rigging)

*Bones & Rigging?? I don't know....think you will need to go learn a different program for that, although we stretch it, Bryce IS a landscape program.

"This is the first Bryce I will not buy and its sad"

*That has GOT to be the quickest, least informative judgement call I have ever heard, lol. (imho)

"If it was going to be cool we all would know it by now"

*Nope, untrue.

**The plugin for Poser to Bryce is absolutely, positively neccesary. Now, some of you who do not have Poser or use Poser will not even begin to understand this. A quick, perfect transition from Poser to Bryce has been one of the top requests for Bryce since the days of MetaCreations. That ability MUST exsist first as to garner even more interest than just the Bryce user group. It is a business strategy, and a no-brainer. The rest WILL come later.

"If I made a figure(lets say 100 times cooler than mike or vicky) and then boned and rigged it in Bryce,I could give it out for free"

*Hasn't happened yet in all these years, even with all the programs out there that can model traditionally. Sure, there are some free original figures out there, yet none as professional as Mike 3 or Vicky 3. But, then again they have never had TwistedBolt's no nonsense attitude, huh? ;o)

"All new major apps support .FBX file export/import.That includes lighting,textures,animation,etc."

*Yup, I agree! In a major version update Bryce really should support FBX to keep it's head above water with Vue Pro.

"Bryce would be bought by the truck load if it could export to say C4D or Max,even maya"

*Exactly! I don't believe DAZ ignorant enough to NOT have Bryce have that capability. If it means more revenue and a progression of their products, I can' think of why any business wouldn't at least attempt it.

"I cant see why everybody is all "well,just wait and see"

*We DON'T mean "lets keep quiet and see", we mean why STRESS the heck out over certain aspects of all this if it is unknown and will remain that way until an announcement? The emotional aspect of this can get ridiculous, its all specualtion. Yet...what's new, lol.

**SO, what I DO suggest is sigining up for DAZ (Free) just to be able to speak your mind over there at their forum (everybody). We didn't wait this long to just to sit on the sidelines!!!

If we CAN have some influence in DAZ's "to do" list...all the freaking better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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