Attached Link: BRYCE 5 PREVIEW

Get a sneak preview here: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/news/bryce5/

Wow! That pics are very interesting... Makes the decision whether switching to Vue if it's available for MacOS X even harder. Does anybody know if Bryce 5 supports multi-processor machines? Have to agree that the way Vue will support importing Poser models/Scenes is really cool. Wish it would be that easy with Bryce 5, too.

Hey, thanx, ezysk. We are all getting reaaaally itchy about Bryce, now. Seems Corel is very, very aware of the Vue threat (not from me, though, as I use both programs, but that's another story).

Bryce 5 will support Mac AND PC, both. :^)

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What I think is really neat about this newer version is the: "Tree Lab" Now there is no need to search for other organic software to populate a scene. But what I am still in the dark about is how bryce will hanlde the object modelers,and just how many import export formats it might include if any. Guess we will all found out about it fairly soon.

Sykx - none of my business, I know, but I hate to know that someone's hard modelling work goes to waste. Bryce can't (AFAIK) export models made by boolean adding, subtracting, etc. because Bryce doesn't actually change the mesh/geometry. It just uses the add/subtract info when rendering. If you want to "free" your models from Bryce dependency, I'd suggest you pick up one of the free copies of Amapi 4 (on several cover CDs, and sometimes on the net). It can boolean with the best, and do a lot of other things, too. And it's got another cult interface that some of us find quite amusing to use ;-)

Wow! Great link, I hadn't checked out that site for quite a while. It answered a lot (not all) questions about Bryce 5. Improved/Higher Rendering abilities, Depth-Of-Field, Tree Lab, Meta-Balls, Improved lighting, even Network Rendering, etc. Yet...I (and many others) think what would be THE major wow-factor of the new Bryce 5 would be the ability of exporting true Boolean objects OUT of Bryce. Don't know if it has it, but it seems to be on everyone's wish list. And, I do realize about the free Amapi, and I do indeed have it, but if I could use Bryce's GUI to do Boolean work over Amapi...it's a no-brainer, Bryce would easily win me over, instantly. I hope that the upper-most link is not really "ALL" the new features, although, if you look, the page is entitled "all the new features explained". But, I tell you what, I've been wanting Onyx Tree Pro 5, for tree work, I've just been choking on the $500.00+ price tag...not any more, seems Bryce 5 will take care of what I need with its Tree lab.

No one has commented on how wonderful metaballs will be..so decided I have too:D I've been serious thinking about switching to Vue, and ditching the Bryce bandwagon, because with Corel I thought it would be a sinking ship. But it appears to be greatly improved. A tree generator...looks great...not sure about the loose leaf placement I saw..but we shall see. I'm looking forward to being able to model with metaballs, thats been one of my complaints the lack of modeling capabilites, with metaballs I can think of so many ways of creating a face and animating it, lava flows looking all flowy..lol There quick solution to the rendering speed problems...rendering over a network is a nice idea, but hope they will eventually improve the rendering engine. The new lighting looks nice, I like the gradient ability. Well we shall see if its all that it is cracked up to be.