Quote - After this glass challenge, we'll probably need a metal + HDRI challenge.  That robot HDRI looks wow!

AgentSmith always blows my socks off with the stuff he renders and makes it look easy.... I'm not joking...you should come to my house and see all the socks I've got all over the place ;)

rofl....

If you are still getting the old B6.0.1 download - READ THIS

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=54838&sid=62f2f7c8803f1ae100f699006f788c77

They have an explanation of what the problem is.

Thanks guys.  I'll try it again later.

Woohoo it worked.

That's good to here Uncle Riotous ...

-darlisa

i've had a little play with it and the HDRI does seem improved. However my attempts at importing models which i had used in B6 resulted in crash after crash...

what kind of models?

Quote - Guess what I just bought for $49.98!!!?!?!?!? Thats right Bryce 6.1 :)

Now thats what I call Affordable..... even for an unemployed bum like me :)

Yea I’ve been hanging on to 5  but  I just had to go for it myself at that price. All this HDRI stuff was getting me jealous, now I’ve just got to learn to use it.   I wish all software was this affordable.

Well Now I think I may be able to enter the Glass challenge after all now..this update has quartered the time it was taking to render my effort..

Attached Link: B 6.1 HDRI teat image

Quote - what kind of models?

poser figures e.g daz troll fully textured and james textured

I've got the troll, I'll (be able to) try that out later today, after I see a client.

I'll test it out!

well, I took the plunge and put 6.1 in on the new box. it only seems to run at 50% (2 cores used, 2 not) any ideas what i am missing?

Not sure, may have to ask DAZ direct. I'm assuming there you have a quad core?

No, dual Opteron 280s (2 x 2 core), Cinema rocks with 4 render lines and all pegged at 100%, bryce so far can only do 50%,  uses all cores though. Still, it seems pretty cool.

Got it sorted, found the priority switch inside bryce, that did the trick

priority switch inside bryce?

Oh, where?

Under the little triangle to the right of the render button (render options), third item down.  Have to set to high for all the CPUs to be employed.

One thing worth mentioning is that Priority isn't saved with the file (so batch renders are always at the default 50% as well as reload) nor is it saved with Launch to Previous State. Not that it matters much but the Low and Normal are just about the same on the PC (around 50%). On the Mac it's 25%, 50%, 100%.

I noticed that, but it's easy to change (just have to remember)

I take it that this option only appears if you have the relevent hardware?

Ok, I've been reading this thread for about an hour and my eyes are not only crossing, but, burning as well! :blink:  If I saw the answer to my question, I seriously can't remember, so, I'll risk being drawn and quartered by the masses and please realize I'm not asking to be a pain.

All of the content that isn't native to the install seems to be sitting in my computer in Bryce 6.0.    I don't have any presets that I can't live without, and I didn't think 1 minute into the future to back up the installed content, which doesn't seem to be an issue now that I've seen the undeleted folders.

**Is it just a matter of copying and pasting into the new 6.1 folder, or will I have to totally re-install the content I purchased for Bryce?

**Yes, I'm a fool for not thinking ahead...but, I got caught up in the "AAAHHH!  An update!!" mentality.  I just want to know if I have to head over to DAZ and reset my Bryce downloads and start plugging away again.

Thanks all, 
StevieG

I think the content and presets have been altered with 6.1. All your own presets should be retrievable. I believe I saw a bit on that issue over in the daz bryce forum.

Quote - Bryce : Best Bang for your Buck.

at 50 bucks there's some inappropriate pun in there..

Yeah, some of the content has been updated and/or new presets added, so really you would want to install the NEW preset installers, but as far as old presets, I've just kept those under my "User" section(s), so I just dragged my User folders out, unistalled my B6.0, installed B6.1, and dragged and dropped my User folders back in. All good to go.

You know, now with this new update that does HDRI faster, I have to re-think what to do for the glass challenge.

Hrm, I just re-rendered in B6.1 one that I was doing in old B6, but with the soft shadows off and either feels just as fast or performance dropped. I'm not sure if it's actual or just my imagination. Is there more than one place to set soft shadows? I went to the sky lab and clicked it off, and it's off in render options. Am I missing any other place?

**Is there more than one place to set soft shadows?

**-Yup. In the IBL section of the Sky Lab, there is the "Quality" slider right underneath the HDRI preview window, take it off the default of 256 and down to 16.

The old "Soft Shadows" button has to do with just the suns shadows, and when you use HDRI, the sun is by default turned off, so that will have no effect. (unless you were to turn it back on (the sun)), and then still that would only affect the shadows made by the sun.