Quote - Yeah...and if Corel hadn't dropped the development ball, and DAZ didn't have to spend a .5 upgrade on mostly cleaning up mountains worth of old Corel code...

LOL. Damn that Corel - they didn't do anything with Bryce yet somehow they stuck mountains of code in it. Methinks AgentSmith has been smoking the DAZ publicity pipe a bit too much.

Back to reality for a moment, it should be remembered that Bryce was old and cranky before Corel purchased it. Corel released a major upgrade to MetaCreation's version 4, for free - and then went on to produce the most stable version of Bryce there has ever been (at least for Windows). If Bryce had been a commecial success for Corel, there is no doubt they would have continued developing it. I wouldn't for a moment pretend that Corel was a paragon of virtue, but I'm not going to stand by and see history revised for the sake of DAZ.

So far, with Bryce5.5, DAZ has merely exploited the program as a route to promoting its usual 'content' products (what generally gets called "Poser"). This is the DAZ way, or at least has been up until now. They tried the 'content' model with Bryce specific items and, given the lack of continued action in that area, I'm guessing it failed as a money making approach.

For most of us, it remains to be seen what DAZ do for Bryce with version 6. It looks like AgentSmith and a few others here already know, and it is encouraging that they seem impressed. But maybe they are just easily impressed... ;-)

Like a great many DAZ customers, and a great many remaining Bryce users (those who hadn't already moved to Vue), I've just splashed out on Carrara. Why would I buy Bryce6? I mean, I've been a Bryce user since it was first available for Windows, I love it and know it well. But even so, why would I buy Bryce6, now?

That's the crux of the matter for Bryce. Version 6 might well be a lovely little flower - but the pollinating insects have moved off to pastures new.