Heya Lyrra,

I'm not too sure how much interest there would be in stuff like that - I think your best information would come from asking some of the people in the marketplace here that try to sell bryce stuff and see what they say.

The bryce community (here, 3dc, ...) seems to be fairly solidly into freebie mode, unlike the poser community where commercial products are a given these days. A thread about the commercial content aspect of bryce showed up at 3dc pretty soon after DAZ had bought bryce I seem to remember (though it may have only been a part of a thread that went that way).

I think one of the difficulties that starting up a bryce market targetted at new users would have (as opposed to a poser market, for example) is caused by the different requirements that a new user has to get started with the different specific program.

Using poser as an example, a new user needs pretty realistic rigged figures, good textures, and conforming clothes (ok.. maybe not necessarily the clothes, but you get the idea) all of which are pretty much beyond the beginner's skill set to create themselves. Hence they need to buy them to basically get to the entry level of the poser world.

For Bryce, a lot of the basic needs for a beginner are a lot more easily realised - terrain, trees, oceans ..... are all one button affairs to get you to an entry level of the bryce world (though, just like in the case of poser, to go beyond the entry level takes a lot more effort). i.e. it takes a lot less effort to paint a terrain up to the desired shape than it does to model a human figure. Hence, the newer bryce user doesn't need to buy things to get to that entry level. I imagine the same thing would apply to Vue as well.

Anyways, I hope all that makes sense. If you can get it up and going, good for you, but I think it would be hard, not only for the "bryce users are into freebie mode" reason but also from that entry level requirements thing.

Editted for typos

Message edited on: 10/25/2004 00:15

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