Quote - Bryce has been good to me.  Most of the products I bought at Daz3D were with credit from images I submitted to the Bryce gallery there.

 

My concern with Bryce was always the conflict between the purists and the non-purists.  Put a cramp in my style.  If Brycers hadn't been so opposed to importing ready made product I think the market would have held out longer for Bryce.  Problem is Daz3D seems to care very little for the ugly step-child software.  Doesn't bring in enough revenue.

 

I still fire it up now and then but I don't render anything anymore.  Mostly vector stuff now.

Now that I am retired and with one foot in the grave according to the mods(G), I have time to use Bryce almost daily and for a program that I started using with vers3 I am still amazed at its abilities.

As to a conflict about using imported models that's too bad for any naysayer. Have you ever tried to create a giraffe, a log or an Edsel from primitives or nurbs? Sorry I have neither the time for that nor the patience. Now for textures that is a totally different story. The dte is a work of genius for those who take the time to understand it.

It seems Daz has been taken over by the dreaded MBA bugs and has become obsessed with profit and has little interest in working with Bryce. In fact they seem to be moving towards a substitute program, Carrara, and devoting little to improving Bryce. Not surprising as the Bryce architecture is dated and it is in need of a re-write. So fine for them as there are literally thousands of models, characters and programs on the net for little or nothing in cost. In fact at some of the other communities of which I am a member there is a lot of conversation among many about how difficult Daz is to work with for content developers and outright anger about the new Daz Studio and its attendent content program, and they are not using it, preferring to use Poser.

I will probably continue to use Daz Studio simply because I find it simpler and quicker for creating content for Bryce and as a content library but that is all and as soon as my old dual quad machine gets repaired I will be re-installing some of the older versions of DS on it and isolating it from the net so as to avoid any outside control. Will I buy Brycarrara? Why spend money on that when it can be used to buy additional content instead? Maybe DAZ management will awaken to the fact they are screwing themselves but by that time a lot of their former customers will be happily living elsewhere!