"At the start of the installation of Studio, just press cancel when you are asked where you want it installed. Then you end up having just Bryce installed. Bryce runs fine without Studio. This is just DAZ trying to make sure that everybody tries Studio." I've done that and guess what..... D/S will still be installed. Not the content, but the main program will still be there. Why? Because Bryce 5.5 isn't a standalone anymore. it's completely integrated with D/S and personally I don't like that. For me D/S just isn't working at all. Quite a number of poser scenes just don't open well at all in D/S, if they even open at all. If they do open it takes over 20 mins for them to open, while it just takes minutes in P5 or P6. Besides that I'm even wondering why DAZ is charging us for the upgrade. They've done so little to it and most of it doesn't even work well at all (just check out the Bryce forums). They should have called it Bryce 5.2 as far as I'm concerned. These are the main new features: New in version 5.5! Dramatic Render Speed Increase: Render your favorites scenes over 30% faster on average with no image quality loss at all! Sounds great but I have yet to see it. It's already been stated that people with a non multithreaded single AMD cpu are very unlikely to encounter much a render speed improvement at all. (I'm one of the people owning such a cpu) New in version 5.5! DAZ|Studio Character Plug-in - easily load and edit thousands of 3D figures, vehicles, wildlife and more. It's not a plugin at all, it's complete integration..... easy? Are they kidding? New in version 5.5! Enhanced OpenGL Support - see, in real time, the texture maps applied to objects in your scene in 8 different display styles. OpenGL? I'll pass, where the switch off OpenGL button, it's my favourite feature in any 3D application. New in version 5.5! Bryce Lightning 2.0 - With a new interface, this network render application speeds up processing time by utilizing advanced image compression for improved rendering over either a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN). Doesn't excite me at all. Don't have a network (yet), will build one in the Summer, but I doubt the other pc connected will be suitable for rendering at all. At the moment DAZ also offers the Bryce 5.5 Content Kit: Volume 1 with Bryce 5.5. It's over 200Mb download size and it's pretty much un-usable. Some of the object included take ages to load, don't look that great at all and the presets are well.... I'd better not comment on it. It looks like some amateurs have put this thing together. That's my final conclusion of Bryce 5.5 as well, it looks like some amateurs have put this thing together.... I'm about the hit the uninstall button and ask for a refund (or sell it to someone who likes it). Is DAZ really thinking that this can replace the Poser - Vue combination? Not in a million years.....

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Food for thought.....
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