It's been a long time since I graced this forum with my presence ;-P But OMG bryce 6! Who would have thought it ever could have happened! And image-based lighting too?! And dual core support?! Well then, there is a purchase to be made :D Now let's see what size supercharger will fit on this new engine hehehehe How has everyone been?

MAX!

Pretty good here, just rolling around in the Bryce 6 mud tonight. ;o)

Haha it's downloading right now :-D I need a new hard drive though, out of space. So we can actually do hdri's now (perfect timimg, i'm just making some for school at the moment). What we need to know is what it CAN'T do so we can start to remedy that situation. Ohhhhh I can't wait to render! takes off nerd hat slaps self across face Anyways, good to be back, good to be brycing, yada yada time to update zenith and smartpipe, and test out the boolean exports.

Boolean exports = awesome, imho!

No control over polycount, etc. But, they look just like the booleaned original, so I'm extremely happy.

Well Max,............I can tell you it renders the Zenith Studio quality light rig 4 times faster than it used to ! Of course, I'm using a dual dual core Xeon system to render, so that might have something to do with it. But it pegs those 4 cpu windows on the performance tab of the task manager at 100%. Aye captain,.........it's a thing of beauty ! Oh yeah,..........your nephew's a monkey ?

when they say boolean export, does that mean you can now export objects made from Bryce primitives?
and if so, is that backwards compatible?
IOW, wil I at long last finally be able to export that elaborate fully posable house I made 3 years ago entirely from Bryce primitives?

(please say yes).

Yes.

cool.

I made up a quickie example;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2669564&page=1

Good to hear from you Max!!

Enjoy, the rest of us are!

ICM

Nice to hear from you Max,

As to Bryce 6, payday is a week away...... :)

Quote - Boolean exports = awesome, imho!

No control over polycount

What do you mean "no control over polycount"? You know you can change the level of mesh display and it will reflect in the mesh-out-of-booleans?

You know you can change the level of mesh display and it will reflect in the mesh-out-of-booleans

?

Explain. I'm not understanding that.

Okay, I just read this in another post. What you said just seemed so fantastic...it would not compute into my tiny brain. I get it now. I did not know this!

Thank  you!

Wireframe resolution. Change the value of "selected" before you turn the boolean group into a mesh and it will regulate the density of mesh. Not much control, but control nevertheless.

Ah, a crosspost. :-)

This is what I get for just clicking around Bryce too much with no manual reading, lol.

Thanks again, Erlik.

No manual reading? (sniff) ... all that hard work for nothing? (whimper) ...

(sniff)

-darlisa

Well, that's just me, BUT....I have learned my lesson. In spades. Hey, I even linked the Artist Guide to the Forum Header.....

I'll start reading today, promise.  :o}

HUGS Max!

Quest and I were just talking about you the other day. Only nice things.

How's things been going?

Hi Ang, missed u.

HUGS Willy, I wish they'd bring back the bryce chat room. I miss you guys too.

Everything is GREAT! School is intense this year, taking two physics classes, biology honors, and the obligatory documentary photo class, just so I can prove to people that I still am in fact a photography major (but now attempting to double-up with pre-med, although likely doomed to fail). I have a FANTASTIC job working at the advanced media studio at NYU, where I am in charge of large format printing. We do work for students, museums, and galleries affiliated with NYU on 44" wide archival epson printers, the awesome part being that I get to do as many prints as I want for free, and get paid too! And these are prints that would cost $500 each if done in a lab. But the REALLY cool part is that we also have a laser cutter/etcher and a rapid prototyping 3d printer, so I can actually beuild physical objects from 3d models, in 24-bit color! (And no, I haven't printed a poser sex scene yet) So yeah, that's been great, and I can perhaps manage to get ya'll a free big print or two, though not at the full size. I'd say 20"x35" is fine, with at least four people with one image each per run. And they do need to be large, high-quality, well rendered files, 3000x5250 or higher. Maybe I'll do it as a prize for the first, second, and third place monthly contest winners, thereby avoiding the approximately 1 million requests that I will recieve as soon as people read this post ;P But yeah, it's all good here. How about yourself and Quest? P.S. New version is great, only uses 2% of one of my CPUs when idle, as opposed to 96% in bryce 5.5, and multi-threaded rendering itself is worth the upgrade.

Hey Max!

Hey Ang!

Darlisa:
us guys are like that - manuals? "we dont need no ... " well you get the idea. I better shut up before I start doing my Fred C. Dobbs impression or something. 

alright B.M.,...........I had my suspicions about you from the very start ! You killed the old man and took his gold, then figured you could kill me and take mine as part of the bargain ! Well that's where you're wrong !

I'm good, I've been visiting NYC about once every other month now since my first trip there. I don't go in the winter though. I was in Washington Square Oct 8th. Looked around, didn't see you. It was late and I got fascinated with the herd of rats that crossed my path, and Quest hurried me along, wouldn't let me stop to pet them or take their picture.

Hey,........those were friends of mine !

WOW! What a guy! LOL....

Ang, it was the middle of the night and they were running around apparently in heat looking for a mate. Seemed like hundreds just swarming around as if following some Pied Piper. Didn’t fancy getting mounted or bit by one of those. Max, didn’t know you were back in N.Y.