Yeah, Poser's just dandy. I use it quite often in images, but bryce can create just about any scene whilst poser will always be just a flesh maker, hence the popularity of its galleries. Maybe that is an oversimplification, but I see poser as the monkey not the organ grinder. (Now pauses for poser lovers to bash the hell out of me)

Attached Link: http://www.mayang.com/textures/

Let's face it. There will always been a certain ammount of artistically-challenge, anonymous poltroons who prowl the galleries looking for targets to unleash their uncooth, crass comments on the rest of us. They usually have no galleries of their own, have no place except to bad mouth others and they are usually driven by a a twisted little urge to hate what they cannot do themselves; namely create anything of worth. So don't ever bother taking what they say to heart, Alvin. They are usually motivated by their own inadequacies rather than any artistic criticism they need to express. In the end they will totter off once more to play with their crayons and paper :)

Obviously the distance between what Corelcrap say and what they really want to say to closing. We've had the corporate spiel, then the spin followed by the ghastly truth in wolfs clothing. Corel could not care less about bryce or its community. The sooner we ackowledge that the better. At the end of the day they are brutally pragmatic about the whole thing: Red ink=bye bye bryce. As for further updates and Bryce 6 it is really just the emperors new clothes. Maybe corel should churn out knives; they've stuck a pretty good one in all our backs :(

This linked still worked at the moment, just tried it. ftp://ftp.ualg.pt/users/jluis/tmp/Bryce5TrialVersion.exe Get it quick!

I had a similar problem some months back with random crashes on a render, but not a particularly large file it has to be said. On that occasion I installed bryce to another partition and burnt all of the DLL's and bryce executable to disk then copied them over to my main program and overwrote the files there. This seemed to fix the problem and saved me the hassle of risking a complete reinstall which usually buggers up something or other. Hope this helps :)

Sorry to hear about your comp. Maybe some of this may help. I will have to assume you are using a windows computer as they are the only kind I deal with. When you are presented with the error message are there any beeps to accompany it? Have you tried to insert a boot disk in the A: drive to try and boot from that? If you can do that then the damage may not be as bad as feared. BIOS rom failiure may be caused by several things. I would advise you to check all your cables and pins on the connections to your drives and reseat them all. ALso pressaing trying to reseat the BIOS chip may help. Consult your motherboard manual on where to find this chip is you are uncertain. On a more drastic note it may be possible to actually replace the bios chip with another of the same type but this can be tricky and you would have to locate an exact BIOS chip to replace it with. Your local repair shop could do this for you if they have an appropriate replacement, but don't hold your breath. Also try and replace the CMOS battery on the Mboard just to cover all your options. Of course all this may seem like too much arsing about and I wouldn't blame you is you just ripped the damned thing out, grabbed the cheque book and got a new one! I will end by adding that BIOS rom troubles invariably end poorly, reducing you to tears, madness, bad breath, irritable manner(unless like that to begin with) and finally constipated due to too many hours wedged in front of blank screen. :)

Corel took their pound of flesh out of Bryce when they acquired it. Now they try and toss the bones into a corner. Hopefully Bryce will be still around in some form or other when the likes or Corel have red-inked themselves out of existance.

The thing about bryce as mentioned here, are those quintessential attributes that have always made it so readily accessible. I started using it about a 14 months ago and looked at the opening window with a mixture of wonder and fear, yet soon the fear was dispelled and the wonder has never left me. Its ease of use and acceptable learning curve along with its strength in depth have always been a mainstay of the program. Add to that the fanbase and loyal user support that Bryce has imbued throughout the web and you have something that is just too darned good to kill off. Bryce is a definition of creativity and artistic endevour. Sure, there are other apps, but they leave me cold and without inspiration. I have always viewed the more expensive modelling programs with a degree of apathy. Yet having said that I have just ordered Vue d'esprit and 3D max. If Bryce is to eventually go, then diversification in creation as a user may be the only way to stay ahead of the corporate hacks who see little more than the next fiscal quarter in front of them.

To be honest, I do not think some of these corporate nerds know what they are dealing with. They spend so much time locked up in their ivory towers surrounded by accountants and yes men. They are so far removed from real Bryce lovers and the huge fan base, it would never ever occur to them what they are undertaking in this action. I would like to know if Corel is prepared to move the product on, or merely engage in endless rhetoric about the matter. They are not saying much at the moment, allowing others to draw many meanings from the silence. Are their intentions honest or just driven by a sudden need to placate the voices of discontent? That would be a start at least. If Bryce can be allowed to find a new home and Corel are prepared to signal such, then plans regarding a new buyer will take on more rational solidity.

Here is a little bedtime horror story I intend to email to Corel. One day poor little Bryce was out in the cold looking for a place to stay, when along came the corporate monster, Corel who took Bryce in. Bryce was a little unsure of its new host as it had heard horrid tales, but it was a port in a storm so had to risk it. All seemed peachy and well. Bryce was allowed a small growth spurt by the monster and the future seemed okay if not a little ambiguous. Then one dark day the monster, Corel, was checking over its ledger of blood and was amazed by how much red blood there was on the books, The monster had been a little too divergent in its eating practices so decided something drastic must be done to get the books out of the red. The monster had a long conference with itself which involved plotting poor Bryces murder and plenty of self-congratulation. After the meeting the monster, Corel, called Bryce over to it. The monster made small gestures of concern and affection for Bryce and waited for the right moment. Then suddenly and with neither provocation nor warning, the monster plunged a knife into Bryces back and twisted. Shock! Poor Bryce was defenceless against such a large, ugly monster, and promptly fell to the ground mortally injured. The monster was quite smug and self-satisfied with its work. It shoved Bryce in a small, dark corner and said nothing of the incident to anyone. A few weeks went by and the monster finally began to indicate to the outside world that poor Bryce was very sick and may soon pass from sight from its beloved users and fans. After that, people were shocked to their very cores by poor Bryces demise. They wept, got angry and even looked longingly at other 3D apps until they came to their senses. They needed to know how this had happened. Surely the monster had promised to look after poor Bryce when it had invited it in? Slowly but surely, the real story of what had befallen Bryce began to leak out. The monster, Corel, had enemies from within and they did not like what had happened to their friend, Bryce, and made sure the world knew about it. Once the multitudes of Bryce lovers, enthusiasts and fans the world over realised the true story of Bryces horrible death, they rose up like a dark army of discontented crows and dumped on Corel the only way they knew how. They never went to the monster again for any of its other crap products nor would they recommend them to anyone. They began to spread the word far and wide that the monster, Corel, was not to be trusted, especially with financial affairs or other software. Who knew who the monster would bump off next? Eventually the monster became thinner and thinner as it tried to clear all that red blood from the books. The lean times set in as former friends and customers stayed away, and eventually the ugly monster, Corel, ceased to exist, disappearing into a puff of smoke up its own backside. Much rejoicing ensued, especially by lovers of Bryce, whom had not forgotten the monsters old treachery THE END.

CHRIST ON A BIKE! I have only been using Bryce about a year so I am a relative newcomer to digital art, and now those bastards at corel crap are yanking the rug from under me and thousands of others. I guess they are distincly unfamiliar with terms like "user base, support community and loyal users" Back stabbing shitkickers! I feel gutted by this news. I hope they all rot in linux hell. Bryce has always offered maximum pleasure and satisfaction for beginners and experts alike, that has always been a part of its attration and its strengths unlike others apps. I've tried fiddly 3D max, Mucked about with maya and had the Vue from the bridge of eons nice app, but bryce always brings home the bacon. The price was right, the interface was great, the varid quality of the software shone through and not to mention the communities out there that love it. What can you say.... Corel, if you murder bryce we'll hate you forever. Think about it.