You don't get the Instancing Lab with the free version, it's really easy to use, some people overload it and think it's an easy way to crash Bryce, and well calling it a 'Lab' is a bit of a cheek, as you just access it like we do attributes, only the attributes are via the A, and at the bottom of that column of tiny icons (- in the Pro version) there is also a tiny i - that's the instancing lab - very well hidden.

Plus there's no documentation for it, but if you hunt around there's a fairly decent thread with hints and tips for it - on daz forums I think.

If you did decide to get the pro version I could hunt down that thread for you.

There are a few other things that you can't get in the free version, like:

Distant Lights, True Parallels, Light Domes and 3D Fill Lights, but I made a couple of light domes before those came out and I still use them, plus I made light sets using 3 point lighting, and I still use them too... so really you can manage without them.

The Pro does 'True Ambience' too, and that eats processing power, so I rarely use that, it also does displacement - very badly.

Object importing is still messed up, oh it'll import the model okay now, but the naming system is totally hashed up.  This is intensely irritating to me.

I love using the IBLs with all the new controls for it, you can even use the Bryce sky for your own internal IBL - and you can export it for use in other progs... I'm not sure if an exported HDR could be used in the free Bryce.... That would be interesting to know.

(further to this, I just tested an hdr image created in Bryce7Pro, and it works just fine in Bryce6.3, so I don't see why it shouldn't also work in the free Bryce7 (- which by the way is no longer free, I guess you got it just in time!)

Tone mapping the IBLs can give you some incredible loopy effects, and some nice normal effects too.

There's also a new particle emitter, but you can use that in the free Bryce too, according to Daz's comparison list.

Here's how:

http://www.youtube.com/user/WWWDAZ3DCOM#p/c/3CB43D9875EDD1C8

Myrtha, it probably took you so long to get Bryce7 because you were merrily playing with Poser and Daz, and making all those nice models of yours.

Which is what I'm trying to do now.... (Poser and DazStudio)

insert smillie showing evil twisted grin with a hint of maniacal desperation. Lol!

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