"DAZ did indeed farm out much of the programming. Look at the 5.5 About screen - Opportunity International, which I think is in China" Yes, you are correct. The huge load of fixing and optimizing Bryce's code (from Corel) was done by a large group of Asian programmers, I'm not sure in what country though it was actually done in, though. DAZ has been kicking around with Newtek and Nvidia. We COULD see improvements in Bryce 6 and/or Bryce 7* with help from these companies. Not a guarantee, but maybe. Then there is the possible insane realism achievable with the Maxwell renderer plugin coming up in this year (although expensive!) Yet, I am hoping we get a switchable renderer in Bryce 6, perhaps the fast renderer Studio uses, 3Delight. *Yes, I said Bryce 7, DAZ corporate has mentioned B7.0 to me. From my talks with them, they are committed to Bryce for the long haul, just imho. AgentSmith

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