The more I think about the (newly enlarged) DAZ software collection, the more Bryce looks like the odd one out

Maybe because there aren't 3 versions of Bryce. Yet.  ;o)

The exsisting user group for Bryce is pretty massive. The user group for the Basics program...nearly non-exsistent. A newbie asking about what programs to start with aren't going to hear people reccomending "Carrara Basics" very much at all. They are going to hear "I started with Bryce", they are going to see thousands of images in the Bryce gallery...and their decision will follow.

I'd want to start with a brilliant, simple tool that bears a strong relation to the program I'd want to be using when I was 3D top-smart

-Rarely can someone make that call and it follows through. Meaning, when I thought about what might come after my Brycing I thought "Maya", then it changed to "C4D". Then I eventually went with ZBrush and Carrara (standard)

My final introduction into 3D was Bryce, because of the interface. Every other program seemed to only have 4 blank screens, and nothing else. I had no idea what to do. Bryce was intuitive.

DAZ will continue bumbling along incoherently, making it up as they go; using their content revenue to buy themselves out of poor decisions (like acquiring Bryce). Their basic operating procedure will always be to sell the same thing several times over to the same customers. It'll always work.

Except with Bryce. Bryce will not move beyond version 6 under DAZ.

-Wow...I had no idea you were that down on DAZ and Bryce. Honestly speechless. Okay. ;o/

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