Attached Link: http://bryce-alive.net/bryce5review/

Lol...nah Bryce 5 doesn't suck....;o) And, it's actually only marginally slower than version 4...until ya start clicking the new settings... Okay, all your problems seem to revolve around rendering and all those new settings. It seems Corel needs better explainations for their new settings badly. Up these settings just a little, or just plain invoke some and you will drastically increase render times. In the "Render Options" window 1. Don't use "Premium" under quality mode if you can avoid it. You HAVE to at the very least look up the effects that become available if you use the "Premium" quality in your manual, and see what they do. Just invoking "Premium" at its lowest setting will not only make your render longer but make it look like crap if you don't set it to at least 64 rays per pixel. And, at 256 rays, you might as well leave it rendering for the weekend or longer. If you are not using those effects in your scene, do not go to "Premium". 2. In fact stay at "Regular" for a while, stomping on the Bryce 5 gas pedal and maxing everything out will only turn you into a Bryce 5 is scrap kinda person. Um, clustered vs. Uniform...I have found that setting it to "Clustered" and "Normal" will be the best settings 8 out of 10 times. 3. Optics: Max Ray Depth/TIR very basic definition - How many windows and mirrors does your light pass through/bounce off before it stops. Increase these numbers as high as you like (as far as I know). Is there anything transparent or mirror like in your scene? No? Then don't touch it. Note - as with anything here increase numbers and you increase your render time, more is not always better, high values (set to 10 and 10) can make some glass look abnormal. I set mine to 8 and 4 ONLY when I had a scene that called for it. (a scene with two lenses and three mirrors). 4. Next...take that link I put up, now. It is a review on Bryce 5 in the area of all it's new settings. It will quickly explain a lot. Hang in there, read your manual. Agent Smith

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