Actually the Bryce buyout is a good thing.

Think for a minute- in the four years or more I have known of the poser figure phenomenon one thing has been a constant-

So long as development in render engines / techniques / calulations / simulations move toward ever increasingly mimicing of real life then so is the benefit felt like a ripple throughout other softwares.

One thing is for sure- Poser characters must increase in render quality just as every other program that creates objects or mechanical deviations.

For more realism, you are going to need HDRI, you are going to need on the horizon - interference light wave calculations and so on.

If Bryce is to improve the content of what you can render then by default it will be improved upon in that manner.

In other words, this is a good thing- I expect as a natural reaction that Bryce will benefit in Daz's support for the poser line because all things must continue improving to match and keep pace.

If the line of progress in this area of rendering was flat- then we would still be in amazement over that MTV 3D video from the 80's that at the time was the advantgarde of computer 3D.

Message edited on: 06/24/2004 22:37