Yup, the word is trickling down now DAZ has purchased Eovia.

Looking at getting an official public link to show you. If anyone has a link, post it up!

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You bloody well knew all along, you naughty little Agent you.

Great act! ;-)

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Wow.

This IS pretty big.

I dont have an invitation.
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Tom

See, what did I say? No-one listens to me...

LOL

Lol....PJF...

It's all gonna be good fellow Brycers. Trust me. :thumbupboth:

Interesting. The 3d content business must be good.

A while ago, DanFarr or someone said that they were lining their products up so that bryce would be the end top program of their software tree. I reckon that just changed lol.

Buying eovia  does give them a programing department of their own, which might be good - from something that one of the head honcho's said some while ago, I think a lot of bryce coding for 5.5 was done by external 3rd parties.

Clever....;o)

Eovia will be updating their website as of midnight California time. That is 6 hr. 37m from now.

"By bringing together Carrara and Hexagon with the Bryce, Mimic and DAZ|Studio solutions, we will provide a compelling suite of 3D software tools with a unified vision.”

The combination of DAZ and Eovia will provide customers with a more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing and rendering compelling 3D media. This unification will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets."

See? All the programs seperate, but together.  ;oD

Shit, maybe ought to take the press release link out, AgentSmith. These things are published at set times for legal reasons. Could be a problem.

skulks away...

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Could this mean a special price or package deal from DAZ? :thumbupboth:

Hey...you did it, lol.

Tell you what if things go bad, I'll just have them ban you.

J/K....;o)

What, banned again? LOL

But seriously, you might want to check with your DAZ contacts and see about that.

And hey, you posted it in the Poser forum. Your ass is grass too...

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I wonder whether Carrara will be renamed Bryce Pro 6, since the terrain building is better.  Though, I like Bryce's DTE better than Carrara's.

"I wonder whether Carrara will be renamed Bryce Pro 6"

No.

...at least, not yet.

(Just messing with the Carrara users....;o)

Sweet Mother of Pearl!

if this is true this will put programs like vue way behind to bad as i like using both mayby when this deal is done Daz should buy Vue and have the people that coded carrara could recode vue so that it would be more compatible with bryce now i know this must be wishfull thinking but it would be nice to see happen i'm sure there are other users out there that may agree with me to a point.

Lol, yeah probably wishful thinking. (DAZ buying Vue)

DAZ buying Eovia brings up SO many wild thoughts as to what Bryce 6 and Bryce 7 will be like.

Obviously (I think) we will see cross-usability of Bryce, Studio, Carrara, & Hexagon.

I would still love to see an integrated way of users being able to bring their meshes in and out of Bryce and Wings 3D. Imho, Wings is the best freeware modeling app.

"No...at least, not yet."-Agent Smith. You had me going there for a sec AS! I almost felt sorry for you and Dan Farr as you were swinging about through numerous forums like a cross between "The Flying Zambini Brothers" and a smoke-jumping crew putting out spot fires! :b_tonguewink:

I even found time in between to cook dinner and wash dishes, like good "Cinderfella" boyfriend, rofl...

The funny thing is that its over in the poser forum (as opposed to the other forums about here)where the sounds of axes being ground down to the handle is almost drowning out the cries of "the sky is falling" lol.

The problem with all this is that Carrara 5 Pro has so many abilities that people (me including) wanted from Bryce 6, 7 and so on. It's difficult to imagine DAZ trying to build them into Bryce now they already have a program that can do all that. OTOH, Carrara leaves a lot to wish for in the workflow department.

I little history here.  Maybe the idea can be revived now.

just when i was about to buy carrara. blah :(

Stop posting that, lol. I hate scrolling back and forth. Time to resize, or attach it, lol.

No annoucement yet on the eovia site. And it's almost one o'clock ayem California time. Unless you guys are not on Daylight saving yet.

We're still up in California waiting... waiting...

But the DAZ lot tend to be day people.  They're in for a surprise.  I wonder how they'll take the news compared to how Eovia customers have?

Yup, now I read that someone over at 3DC says 10am for the Eovia site. Sigh....

PST I thought. 

I'll sleep for a few hours.  Then download my Hex2.

Lol....sleep. I dream of sleeping.

Sounds good to me, a fusion of bryce and carrara pro would be awesome, I was thinking of taking up the carrara pro offer from 3dworld.....

Bryce's terrain/sky gen/procedural texture handling (some of it at least) and some ui elements melded into carrarra would be sweet...

But, IM(not at all humble)O they'd need to lose the room approach and do a complete makeover of the tree lab. And speed up the renderer, too. When you turn on all the advanced options in renderer, it approaches Bryce on True Ambience in speed. :laugh: Why can't DAZ buy something like Cinema's rendering engine or another fast renderer? :unsure:

I'd just like to have a RIB export so that I can use aqsis renderer from 'brycara'.....

Daz buy eovia????... hummm well wait and see what will result of this union. I think that bryce could be a cool plug-in for Carrara! (lol)

Arg....just twist the knife why doncha...lol.

So is Carrara going to become Bryce Pro, or is Bryce going to become Carrara Light? ;-)

Bryce will become Infini-D "Infinite".

Extra Extra! Get your copy of EoviDAZ Studio 6! Now with Bryce Lab!

Quote - Bryce will become Infini-D "Infinite".

That's how many days before Bryce 6 is released?

1-2 weeks. Right before Canoma 2.0 is released.

So Carrara RDS means 'Runs Daz Studio?'..;)

Weird! This could be cool and not cool We might see something new & revolutionary such as a melting pot of programs of Bryce, Carrara & Daz Studio. Of course, the Bryce we have come to love may have a totally different look and may even run on the same type of rendering engine such as Carrara's, but who knows.

While we're talking about Carrara, Carrara 2.1 is available for free at this month's 3D World.

Peace,

Eugenius

Actually, from a few key lines from Dan Farr, it sound a lot more like this is DAZ's new "Suite".

Think about Adobe's "Creative Suite" (CS). You can own only one program, or all all of them. The cool part is they can transfer data in and out amongst all the programs easily.

This way, all the various user bases stay intact because DAZ isn't physically combining programs. And,  you would have the possibility of a killer combination of programs.

A Poser killer...a Vue killer, lol.

Just kidding, nothing will actually ever kill those user bases off, they love their programs as much as we love our Bryce. But, importantly, it will put DAZ in a more immediate position to go ahead and compete with Vue Infinite, Poser 6, Shade, etc.

Quote - Stop posting that, lol. I hate scrolling back and forth. Time to resize, or attach it, lol.

It is quite large. Guessing you are below 1280x1024 res.

Eovia or not, bryce has a looooong way to go before it caught up with Vue Infinite really. My guess would be that Cararra will be getting more complex (expensive) features while bryce will be used for what it's best at. Easily creating nice 3d scenes and being cheap and easy to own. That's what I'd do anyways..

Have you looked at the features of Carrara? (I know I hadn't for a long time)

It's complex to start with, lol.

Scroll down this C5.1 list;

http://www.eovia.com/products/carrara5/carrara_full_features.asp

I think Bryce still needs to advance though - if not then people will just bail for the cheap version of Vue (the one thats about 100$), though this is assuming that EON (makers of Vue) keep advancing their "entry" level Vue product as well.

Bryce is advancing. Hopefully users won't have to wait the entire year to find out how how far!

Quote - Have you looked at the features of Carrara? (I know I hadn't for a long time)

It's complex to start with, lol.

Scroll down this C5.1 list;

http://www.eovia.com/products/carrara5/carrara_full_features.asp

Exactly why i suggested carrarra will prolly be the app for the more complex features ;-)

Oh, sure. Bryce 6 isn't going to be advanced that far, lol.