Okay, regardless of the fact if DAZ is, in theory, capable of resurrecting bryce to acceptable status, I think it should be clear that the bryce version we have now is 'bout 2 or more generations of 3D techology behind. Not a bad thing considering the programs age, but I doubt (seriously doubt) that bryce's code as it existed when metacreations left it is compatible with these new developement. The fact that mister Ken Musgrave himself, who worked on Bryce at Metacreations has said that a lot of the code in bryce doesn't really make total sense. It gets the job done to some degree, but it's not "clean" and balanced out like the coding of Mojoworld, which was based on the same principles as some of bryce's technology. I also recall Ken said that Bryce's coding is a mess. It should be hard for outside programmers to find their way around in there. I recall having seen rendertimes with the supposed Bryce 5.5 beta compared to those in bryce 5.0 on this forum. On those, we could clearly see that, while small scenes get a significant (but not big enough to compete with most other quality render engines) speed increase, yet the more complex the scenes get, the less the rendertimes went down. From all this I draw to the following conclusion: - DAZ's Bryce 5.5 is an optimized version of Bryce 5.0 - Bryce's code is a mess, doesn't always make sense and is outdated and not yet capable of handeling things like vue's ecosystem technology. The best step to securing that bryce can stand the pressure of incorporating years of technological advancement in a short time would be to COMPLETELY REBUILD bryce's code from the ground up. Structurize it better and more fficiently. Work out the stuff that doesn't make sense and make it so that it will be mathematically and logically correct. This has been done to other programs in the past and it is simply the best way to secure quality code that is both up to date and efficient for leaps of technological advancement to come. Current Bryce status: Bryce 5.5 is hardly a step forward in the right direction and will most likely NOT be of significance to bryce's future IF it wants to ever go and catch up Vue and/or other programs. -- Ray (Automated "female jiggling" technology for DAZ models does not count as a significant technical improvement for Bryce 6)

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