I think I agree, but am I the only one here who thinks it's a little strange that;

If DAZ are gonna kit out Bryce6 with a plugin renderer, why on earth did they put so much time and effort into improving the current renderer in what is just a "point" upgrade, only to ditch the entire renderer in the next release?

Surely that's a waste of time, money, and resources :-/

Personally I'd rather they just updated the current renderer with Photon-Mapping, HDRI, and TA that's "fully" implemented. But I realise I'm living in dreamland again :-P

PS:
Did I tell y'all I'm a multi-billionaire, and if DAZ don't make a real go of Bryce6, I'm gonna make them an offer for the rights to Bryce!

Here's the additional new features of pumeco/Bryce6:

1 - Fully working TA implementation.
2 - Premium-Settings now visible in nano and mat previews.
3 - Import Poser animations.
4 - Import Poser Dynamic-Hair.
5 - Import Poser Dynamic-Cloth.
6 - Import Studio animations.
7 - Particles system (can be used with metaballs).
8 - Deformers for Bryce primitives.
9 - Photon-Mapping, Caustics, HDRI, Lens-Flare, Motion-Blur.

Look at her now - isn't she beautiful?

Of course the question is no longer;
Who will buy Bryce6?

The question is more like;
Who wont?

You get it DAZ - eh?

Now of course I'm not really gonna do that 'cause I'm not a multi-billionaire. In fact I drive a ROVER (or should that be an OVER) and not a Bentley, and I worry where I'm gonna get my next spare parts from!

The wait can be horrific, but the outcome can be worse - pumeco 2006