I like apples and I also like oranges,..............I also like (wait for it) Cinema4D. I think C4D has both Bryce and Carara beat hands down. However (having now offended as many people as I possibly can), as I am still a newb as far as C4D goes,  Bryce 6 has something C4D does not, familarairity (spelling), I am sort of used to working in Bryce, so as far as Bryce 6 (in spite of repeated crashes), I am overall quite pleased with it (multi-threading support, woohoo ! Good multi-threading support, WOOHOO !!!), and at $6, worth it at 10 times the price ! I will have some images in a day or so. As I have stated previously, the skylab is better(clouds and atmospheres are much improved), the light lab is markedly better, parametric textures render and map slightly better and so on. Overall,. all things considered, I say BRAVO to the folks over at DAZ ! A job well done. You have taken an app that had languished for years in 3D limbo and brought it back into the light ! I see a hopeful, bright future. With one important caveat,......fix the freakin bugs (and they a numerous,.....there are some workarounds though),..........please don't make me wait until January or later for a lousy point upgrade to fix the problems.  I found Bryce 5 to be a virtually crashproof app, so all the crashes are a bit vexing. Anyhow,..........that's my opinion,.........not that anyone actually asked for it.

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