Quote - so..has anyone been inspired to bryce one???
If I had the models.. I so would have,,

I have a dollhouse my self. I have often thought it would be great fun to rebuild it in Bryce. Don´t know why I haven´t done it yet, but maybe someday.... :-)

This is just sooooooo cool ! Aha ha ha and poor pigeon !!!

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Quote - and by the way, aren´t you a blast from the past too ?!? :-)

Naw still here but not as much

Oki, just thought that I could remember your name from the past :-)

If you reset your Bryce 6, 6,1 or 6,3 download at DAZ the Beta will pop up...

Quote - does anyone have the link to his site?

Yes, here goes : http://www.prizmbreak.net/index1.html

and by the way, aren´t you a blast from the past too ?!? :-)

Now that is great news ! :-)

This is just a joke...isn´t it ?!?....Please....

Quote - I wouldn't be able to say either way on that. Stuff like that you will have to rely on DAZ to announce.  ;o(

Uhhh they always just say: Soon...everything is...soon and sometimes they have such a stranges way to grasp the word; soon....hmmm or maybe I´m just impatient :-)

Any way: Thanks for you reply :-)

Quote - No worries, there's time. (and some more cool stuff to come)

Well, it ´s seems like you really know something, so now I ask. What will happen when the serial number to the Beta runs out january 25. ? Will there be another beta or just...nothing...back to Bryce 6 or what will happen ?!?

Yes-yes-yes I´m already in love with Bryce 7 and I don´t want to loose it again :-)

Quote - COPY a tree 500 times into your scene and you will have 500 individual trees in your scene, which may make your computer ram will most likely start smoking, and your scenefile size could become massive, making it take forever to load back up, or not at all, getting the  "Bryce out of memory" error (if you can even save the scenefile in the first place)

INSTANCE 5,000 trees into your scene, and Bryce will "see" only ONE tree, but not only remembers the placement of the other 4,999, it will render as if they are actually there. So when you save your scenefile, there is actually only ONE tree in it.

That's kinda oversimplification, but that's the basic idea.

Of course scenefile sizes will increase somewhat when using Instancing, because of Bryce needing to "write down" where all those Instanced objects are, but it will be nothing in size compared to saving a scene with a ton of regular copied objects.

Oki and thanks for the reply...and it have to be an oversimplification if I should understand some of all this tecnical stuff, but I got an idea now of whats going on...and this would be a very nice little possibility to have to play with :-)

Quote - Yeah, any object in your scene can be Instanced.

Although, right now this is not TRUE Instancing, it is just copying the object for you. The benefit of true Instancing will be later implemented.

Yup, Instance trees, water drops, blades of grass...cough spheres over water, whatever.

HDRI - Yes, takes longer since its lighting is by default, more complex.

* Make sure when you are experimenting with an HDRI the QUALITY is set to its lowest value of 16. This will speed things up greatly while you are testing the lighting.

* Use the "Render In Scene" option under the nano preview window, in the IBL /HDRI section of the sky lab. This gives a quicker way of judging the lighting on your scene without having to go back to your main window and render.

Please sweet sweet Agent Smith wil you explain the different between "just copuing the object for you" and "true instanceing". If it is not just a lot of copys of an object, what is it then ?!? I simply don´t understand it and my brain hurts VERY much ! :-)

The DLD skies, any one ?!? What is the DLD skies except from very beautiful sky presets ?!?

Thats fine and nice and all that, Jack, but did you really have to mention cookies when its late evening here and all stores are closed ??? :-)

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Bookmark...out of interest. I was one of the poser-free-store.com people....