Welllllll.........

I can't really be arsed (sorry to any non-Brits/Ausssies to whom the phrase "arsed" means nothing) to read a forum organised/run by the people who currently own our beloved Bryce and whose commercial aspirations are plain for all to see - I don't blame them, they've got bills to pay and families to provide for, like everyone else.....I suspect that I could take a fairly accurate stab at 90% of what's written there anyway.  If you honestly believe that Daz will take notice of your opinion of what should/should not be in Bryce if/when they ever update/repackage/sell it, then I wish you well.  Maybe the moon is made of green cheese and the fairies come in and defrag my disks at night.

To the best of my recollection, I've been using the sacred app since oohhh....let's see....1996? 1997?  I know I had Windows 95 at the time I installed it from a cover disk on "Computer Arts", which featured an article on Kai Krause.  I wonder how many Bryce users here in 2008 even know who Kai Krause is....

I've seen Bryce come, and I've seen Bryce go; I once had more than a year without it installed, I've seen me seriously distracted at work, thinking "I could be Bryceing right now";  I've seen me spend literally all night getting a render just right...I've had it crash at the drop of a hat, I've had it stun me with it's capabilities.  I've always been fairly happy with it as an app, as I've never had the money to lay out on something with all the bells and whistles.  It's still my favourite renderer.  Sure, you can't use it to model much more than a shiny sphere over water- so buy a $1000 dollar app instead - it doesn't have Ecosystems - who cares, it costs pennies - what it does have is a fantastically intuitive interface, the ability to conjure magic out of thin air and the power to fire up/reflect your imagination in a way no other app I know of can - I've used Zbrush, Poser, Lightwave, Vue, 3DS Max and Mojoworld and can say that Bryce outstrips them all, pound for pound/dollar for dollar for ease of use and sheer visual impact.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for Bryce - a fine old gent.

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"