So I went to the DAZ Commons Forum and asked that two people buy it. Didn't bs its potential or anything, didn't beg, just asked to be made rich. And I was, overnight, when two brave souls bought the contraption. I was like YAY!

The plugin is called Shaderstyle and it has a lot of neat shader options, such as wireframe overlays, toon output, and most importantly, something called Anything Goos, which is basically a way of adding dirty, scratches and whatever else you want to the model seams. It's really grand, that one, since it effectively makes me save time from having to ps textures. I just mix a normal one and a dirt-and-grind one and voila!

Now that was one good news for the day, I had a diet pepsi, relaxed, played around with it. But then I saw the thing came from digital carvers guild, and i went to investigate. I got a decent price for hte pack from DAZ, I think. But also, I saw Anything Grows! And since I've had a credit card for a while now, I thought I should muck around and see if the site would take it. $39,95 bucks later, I was playing around with hair/grass/whatever I want. It's basically a plugin that generates any sort of shape you either want or prescribe from the scene around and on top of an object. It's really a multi-replicate function around a shape or object you desire (at whichever distance you desire). I thought it was orgasmic.

Share my happiness and outrightly sing with me: BOO TO BRYSTER! DANAMO ROCKS!

That is all :)

drac
(waves to AS)

What are DAZ bucks?  I thought DAZ payed with virtual money through PayPal.  Anyway I am happy for you, but it is too bad the plugins are not for Bryce.  I am going to go stand by the freeway now and hold a cardboard sign that says "Will UV Map for Plugins".

daz bucks are money daz pays to its brokered artists. they're really just real money :)

The pinkish multi-rep is too cool!!

I had looked over those plugins the day I found out DAZ had bought out Eovia.  They absolutely look like they rock!

I had one of those pink things dipped in beer batter and deep fried for lunch ! Very tasty !

"Can you deep fry the bacon?"

-comic greg behrendt

Heretic!

BOO TO BRYSTER! :)

Very cool! With plug-ins like these who needs anemones? That moss-covered stone block looks great too. I hope that DAZ will update Bryce's code enough to be able to use third-party plug-ins as well.

I hope that DAZ will update Bryce's code enough to be able to use third-party plug-ins as well.

The recent code-work that has been done on B6.0 - from what Steve K. said, [in context] it was to make future Bryce abilities easier to actually implement.

Hopefully, that won't be just for Bryce being able to talk to other programs (Carrara, Hexagon), although yes, that would be awesome...I am also hoping one day for truly great modular plugins, like a vegetation lab, Export Lab (for absolutely anything), etc.

Whether its built into Bryce or a "plugin", I don't mind either way. Just make it, and I will use it.

Wow Drac, thats very cool.

I've been putting off buying the new Bryce forever. I'm still on 5.0 and am feeling its limits. But then again, I don't use Bryce for too much these days except to make the occasional pic.. Hmm..

Yeah hell, I gotta get 6.0!

..it's that dang backslider again, trying to tempt us to the Dark side..;)

looks cool..hopefully Bryce 6 will do this as well..hereby nominated the 'Win-ever' product of 2006..;)