Bryce is called a beginners app or at least a low-end app. And i think that really is right, because a lot of people start out in 3d using bryce, and a lot of serious brycers start to take up other programs as they get more experienced.
This doesnt mean that amazing things cant be done with bryce, but fact is, bryce is just really not up there with the rest in terms of technological advancement. And technological brilliance is the driving force behind the 3d software industry. Games push technology ever further, graphics cards get ever faster, heavier more accurate and versatile renderers keep popping up all over the place, movie industry keeps pushing boundaries.
Dispite the work of guru´s such as Rochr, you only have to put bryce next to the latest pixar movies or pirates of the caribean or lord of the rings to realize, bryce is at the beginners range of 3d software.
Yes certain aspects of these movies can be created in bryce, I´ve seen the famous skelleton army renders and the PRO RENDER discussion inspired experiments with realistic lighting techniques, but if you look at it objectively, it becomes clear bryce was never meant for such things and, more importantly, it has never been anywhere near reasonable for such things in terms of efficiency.

And yes, bryce can do many things vue can, but no it cant do all of it, and even more so, it cant do them as efficiently! Bryce doesnt have a vegetation system as far advanced as the one in vue. Bryce doesnt have the volumetric technologies used for those realistic volume clouds seen in some vue renders (yes bryce has volumetrics, but its far behind on vue's volumetrics, which just plain are better). And then im not even mentioning the eco-systems! Yes bryce can do many trees, but no its not comparable to eco systems.

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