wolf359 posted at 1:43PM Fri, 07 May 2021 - #4418666

Blender have the benefit that Octane come free with it as far as I know

This is incorrect.

While there is a free stand alone version of octane that requires in internet connection(IIRC) and supports only one GPU. it does not come with a Blender installation.

Blender ships with Cycles(the complete version) and its realtime Veiwport engine EEVEE. There is also the AMD Radeon ProRender for Blender that is a separate install.

I have the these three engines installed but as animated filmmaker I use EEVEE almost exclusively and some time cycles for smoke& fire sims

There is also the free Luxcore engine for blender.

Bryce, like Carrara and hexagon is "necro-ware". Dead programs with no further development/updates and only exist because Daz makes the installers Available

Bryce is still a 32 bit brute force raytrace application built on the ancient code of Eric Wenger ,the french musician who created it. Ahh ok just heard it was, haven't actually tried Blender for a very long time.