Bryce 7 Beta available

bobbystahr ( ) posted Sat, 23 January 2010 at 9:21 PM

I've noticed a distinct increase in the quality of the render as well as noticable speed increase....no image yet as I'm still in torture testing but soon, it seens to use similar instancing to Vue because IIRC Vue will show amizong increse in poys in a scene with a population added indicating they aren't true instances...I think Terragen2 uses true instancing because I've never locked it up and have had 15 000 000 grass plants at once with 3 cloud layers which with a lot of polys, will lock the girl right up.. ...

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 8:12 AM · edited Mon, 25 January 2010 at 8:17 AM

Quote - I've noticed a distinct increase in the quality of the render as well as noticable speed increase....no image yet as I'm still in torture testing but soon, it seens to use similar instancing to Vue because IIRC Vue will show amizong increse in poys in a scene with a population added indicating they aren't true instances...I think Terragen2 uses true instancing because I've never locked it up and have had 15 000 000 grass plants at once with 3 cloud layers which with a lot of polys, will lock the girl right up.. ...

Increase in quality? I must go back and re-examine that old render then, as that had some odd glitches, might need to increase the rays or something.

"amizong increse"? What have you been drinking man? Lol.

Cloud layers.... mmmmmm! Drifts off into Cloud Cookoo Land....

By the way Bobby, what do you mean by Bryce native stuff? Do you mean just primatives and trees? or .obp?

Cos the Alien Bug was an .obp but the little boxes were .obj imports and it seemed to manage the boxes a lot better than the bugs, which is perfectly understandable if you're thinking in terms of polys, as the bugs will be huge in polys but the boxes are just boxes, not quite 6 polys each as the edges are smoothed, but still pretty low in comparison.

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bobbystahr ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 9:23 AM

@ Fran
*"amizong increse"? What have you been drinking man? Lol."

*sloppy typing...shoulda bin **amazing increase

**well I was working with trees but one was a Special Tree and one an XFROG import I believe

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

TheBryster ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 10:06 AM

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*"amizong increse"? What have you been drinking man? Lol."

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bobbystahr ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 10:49 AM

Don'r females do Englosh to Engish translation automaticly like males?

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

gendragon ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 2:58 PM

Hi everyone!
Where can find the link for Bryce 7.
I have the original version of Bryce 6.3, but DAZ,
it didn't communicate me anything on the subject.
And I was knowing that it is a Beta test.
I was very interested in being one.
The link above enters in the page of tests, I need
of the download for who is registered and to have Bryce 7 functional, could anybody help?
Thanks!

Anderson

serendigity59@gmail.com ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 4:14 PM

I too missed the boat by not checking my sites for a week or so. Happy to wait for the next opportunity.

Skygirl ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 4:36 PM

If you reset your Bryce 6, 6,1 or 6,3 download at DAZ the Beta will pop up...

gendragon ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 5:10 PM

Attached Link: How Activation download for Bryce 7

look here the the solution: **(Thank you very much AnnieD and ThunderStone! )**

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3592742&ebot_calc_page#message_3592742

tom271 ( ) posted Wed, 03 February 2010 at 2:33 PM · edited Wed, 03 February 2010 at 2:34 PM

I made a statement much earlier on this thread about Bryce 7 being able to now export an object file you just applied the textured maps to... I was very excited and I am still.. But after several experiments..

I found You can export a template mapped textured object file but you'll have problems importing it again and viewing it in Bryce 7... I was able to view it in another App.. If you exported the same file to a 3DS file format you'll have more success...

I guess this is early beta and that export function is not totally functional.

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gendragon ( ) posted Wed, 03 February 2010 at 2:42 PM

Hi Tom 271!
Thank you very much for this information, I had problems also when importing a model.
A hug!

Anderson

tom271 ( ) posted Wed, 03 February 2010 at 11:05 PM

Your are welcome...

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FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Sat, 13 February 2010 at 8:06 PM

Quote - Don'r females do Englosh to Engish translation automaticly like males?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry! (shakes head)

It's a nervous compulsion.

Partly I can blame a writer's background, having written a novel and run various writers' groups, but mainly I think it's an inability to stop interferring - I wonder if it's related to thinking that the word "the" suddenly doesn't look right? or is that red wine?

hic

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

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tom271 ( ) posted Sat, 13 February 2010 at 8:39 PM

Has anyone noticed that the new release 7.0.0.151 exe. is a little slower in the render...?

and the new IBL got less smoother and more jerky to adjust? Quality, intensity and HDRI effect..?

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gendragon ( ) posted Sun, 14 February 2010 at 7:02 AM

The bugs need be resolved soon for such a popular program
I hope liberate the final version of Bryce 7 soon.

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Sun, 14 February 2010 at 10:17 AM

Quote - The bugs need be resolved soon for such a popular program

Yes, and I know they are working on it hard.

Quote - I hope liberate the final version of Bryce 7 soon.

Well, actually I don't. I hope we get a few more beta versions yet, all with new and different things in them as well as bug fixes we have been waiting a long time for.

THEN, they can release the full version.

But I'm enjoying playing with the betas too much to want it to stop just yet. Besides I haven't got any money right now.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

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http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

Analog-X64 ( ) posted Sun, 14 February 2010 at 7:52 PM

The latest Beta Build works for me!!! :) the first beta release would simply crash.

Bryce Lightning is still not function. I tried with 6.3 and 7.0 Beta Lightning clients. It just goes into Pause and refuses to run.

These are early betas, so I'm not shaking any fists. :)

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 3:32 PM

Hey Analog-X64,
Take a look in the light lab - there's a load of new buttons and I'm finding that some are turning on when I use different lights!

I thought it was all disabled for the next beta, but stuff is working right now!

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

tom271 ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 3:51 PM

The light lab is great.. I got very interesting effects in seconds...
specially with the volume lighting...

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FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 5:25 PM

tom271 - I dunno what I'm doing wrong then cos most of the things I do result in very, very long renders.

What did you do in the light lab? Especially with volume lighting?

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

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gendragon ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 5:36 PM

In my Bryce, only intensity works, the other effects are incapacitated.
Always when I change of material terrestrial, it is clearer!

tom271 ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 5:54 PM

As you remember when you have a radial light in the lab.. you can set it to volume.. well in this beta the volume is much more robust then it use to be,,,
RENDER OPTION ---> volume.
FALLOFF --------> range ---- 10 to 15
INTENSITY --------> diffuse ---- 60 - 70

no texture... but try using procedural gel... wow! higher Fallout ----> range

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FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:01 PM

Oh yes I've tried a gel - but not with a volume light - I'll try that in a mo...

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

gendragon ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:03 PM

Cool! Thanks very much Tom271!

BecSchm ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:14 PM

Oh wow! New toy! Get to play with the lights!

bobbystahr ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:22 PM

Heh heh heh, you're Hero of the Day Tom.. ...

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

tom271 ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:23 PM

Thanks..:)

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tom271 ( ) posted Mon, 15 February 2010 at 6:47 PM

This is the simple result

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cmcc ( ) posted Tue, 16 February 2010 at 9:14 PM · edited Tue, 16 February 2010 at 9:24 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/full.php?image_id=2019737

here's my first attempt. crashed a lot but i made it through. the url is larger version.

Computer Art by Charles McChesney

tom271 ( ) posted Tue, 16 February 2010 at 10:17 PM

very good... the terrain on the mountain seems too stretched out...

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bobbystahr ( ) posted Wed, 17 February 2010 at 1:57 AM

that DAZ crash thing is talked about in the forum I think at DAZ.. ...

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 4:46 PM

I had a go with using a gel on a light squished under my egg, the light was previously used as a negative light to provide the normally missing dark shadows.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

tom271 ( ) posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 5:28 PM

Nice egg..

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gendragon ( ) posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 6:33 PM

VERY NICE!

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Fri, 19 February 2010 at 2:18 PM · edited Fri, 19 February 2010 at 2:18 PM

Thanks, I've been using my Egg as a test subject for various stuff in B7 and he's certainly been through the wars lately both in B7 and elsewhere:
Egg Wars

And just at the moment I've got things attacking him!

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

rashadcarter ( ) posted Fri, 19 February 2010 at 2:38 PM

That is hilarious and wonderful egg talk! Seems this egg is on an adventure. I bet you could create an entire movie based on this premise with no problem.

The ants crawling is particularly impressive. Very nice.

tom271 ( ) posted Fri, 19 February 2010 at 4:58 PM

What will it hatch out...? :)

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FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Sun, 21 February 2010 at 2:09 PM · edited Sun, 21 February 2010 at 2:10 PM

Quote - That is hilarious and wonderful egg talk! Seems this egg is on an adventure. I bet you could create an entire movie based on this premise with no problem.

The ants crawling is particularly impressive. Very nice.

I am creating my Egg Film right now, no ants though, but yes it does hatch. one also explodes... he he he!

As for what it will hatch out, weeelll....... it's not a chicken.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com