It's surprising. I'm running a P4 2.6Mhz with 512mb of RAM. Same programs running in the background.

Oh yeah, only mention is that this is a B5.5 render of a B5 scene file. Let me try saving it as a 5.5 scene and rendering it like that.

b5.5 render of a 5.5 scene file. interesting.

That is a bit odd. Anyone else notice the same effect with 5.0 / 5.5 saves?

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Ignore the shooty dog thing.

I've also noticed it with my first 5.5 render. took forever as a b5 scene file, once i saved it, boom, it started working. don't know if that's exactly it, but everything else was the same in teh background.

There...up in the sky, its a bird, its a plane, its... "a patch". Coming soon to a PC near you.

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another one? what, we're going through the alphabet? "DAZ released it's twenty-something'th update for Bryce 5.5 today in a bid to quell public riots outside its offices. The new patch, labelled Bryce 5.5z_01 is the latest incarnation of the successful 3D scenery software. Someone on the scene commented that he's still waiting for 5.5z_99, the real update, also called Bryce 6, sometime within hte next 2 years."

LOL @ Drac !!!

Here are the latest DAZ Bryce 5.5 system reqirements for a faster render times:

Read more at this link :)

Not available for MAC systems at this time ! :P

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Ah, I threw my old Cray away, I didn't like how the cpu fan lit up blue. I like red. AS

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So if you open a Bryce 5 file and render its slow but if you open and resave the same into a Bryce 5.5 format it renders faster? What does that mean? I just hope its not at the expense of losing image quality.

AX, i might be wrong, test it out yourself.

"I just hope its not at the expense of losing image quality" Nope. IF there would be any difference at all in a 5.0 render vs. a 5.5 render, it just wouldn't be visable with the human eye in a normal comparison. At least (disclaimer), that has been my experience. AS

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I noticed Drac has a real problem typing the word "the".

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i just type real fast. :) drac

"The" is just the baloney filler for sentences. Absolutely unneccessary. But, tastes petty good when barbequed. AS

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Thanks Drac. I really appreciate all the testing and help you have given me over the last year. :)

no, 'teh' is a very strong perjorative in Rumainian, and should not be used unless you know a crippling martial-arts form..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Mi Ya heee..Mi ya Hooo...Mi Ya haaaa..

"and should not be used unless you know a crippling martial-arts form" I am a brown belt in Bryce-Fu, does that count? AS

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Only a brown belt Agent Smith? I thought you were at least on your first blackbelt in Bryce-fu....

ah..it's a quote from a short story called "I'm looking for Kadak", the only Yiddish sci-fi story I know. There's a dictionary afterwards, and the appelation to martial arts is in reference to the word 'putz'..;) After intense work of a year and a half, I made white belt..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)