It seems DAZ has released the 6.1 update.

From the DAZ email -- "This e-mail is to inform you that this product has been updated to Bryce 6.1! This update introduces MAC-Intel compatibility, as well as interface and control updates to the IBL lab, corrections to the included content, and many bug fixes, including fixes to the Bryce Lightning network render application. This update requires a full reinstall of the application."

And DAZ's website immediately crashes, lol.  I'm looking forward to seeing what's new.

Yeah I noticed too. I didn't see the update listed in my account page, so I sent them an email through their site and boom! Down for maintenance.

Looking at the DAZ forums, it looks to be $35 if you have a platinum membership. HDRI improvements, 10 HDRI's included, improvements to Bryce Lightning, and ability to set CPU priority.

And Mac Intel support ...

site is back up ... you guys are just too eager :P

Yeah,.........we shall see,............more will be revealed.

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Woohoo! It's coming, but it's coming slooooow!

Man, it feels like Christmas all over again!

Downloaded half of the installers and the site chokes again. :( 

Ah ha! So you're the reason why it's going slooow! ;-) 

The new attributes to the IBL-HDRI part of the Sky Lab.

FAR more control. And, a lot more snappy/responsive when swaping out various HDRI's. 

And most importantly (imho), when using an HDRI, you don't have to render with soft shadows on, speeding things way up.

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You probably had it for days ahead of time....   I can't get in to the site and I have only till 3/11 to do so....

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What happens after 3/11?

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TOM Turns into a B6.1 Pumpkin.

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not sure... here is what they wrote:

*You must download Bryce 6 from your Account page to get this update. Your downloads will be available until March 11, 2007. Please let us know if you have any difficulty.

I don't know what would happen...

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Yeah, check with DAZ, I think any download can be reset, and downloaded again (?)

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I prefer squash....  Bryster..   

Yes AS..   Maybe I'll get to download those 11 files before 3/11...

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I'm sure. Heavy traffic at DAZ slows down after a couple of days.

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I am curious if this upgrade is going to overwrite my Bryce materials and presets as this seems like its own install.  Or am I going to have to move them all over again???

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Oh and its my B- Day :D have a great day everyone!

Guess what?  It is my birthday as well...  what a red letter day....  Pisces

every year in March and on the 7th.....   Happy birthday Vile....

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Vile, as long as you didn't save any presets to the default categories that came with Bryce 6, then you shouldn't have to worry about them. We recommend that you back them up though, just in case. I installed v6.1 over my 6.0 install and it only overwrote the default presets, not the ones I'd added under new category names.

The reset DAZ did automatically expires on 3/11. After 3/11, you can just reset your downloads manually to get the updated files.

But, yes....just in case if you have any presets in say your "User" folders, I would copy them elsewhere before doing anything (backup!)

Per Skondris' post I uninstalled/re-installed.

"Please completely uninstall Bryce 6.0 prior to installing version 6.1 to avoid any potential problems with the included content or the application itself, just to be safe"

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Happy Birthday Tom!!!

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Can't say it enough, lol. *You  don't have to have soft shadows turned on to render with HDRIs.* ;oD

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Tom's Birthday is today too?

Na na na na you say its your birthday na na na na na its my Birthday too!

Gee thanks Smithy...

How many B-days we got going on?!

Happy Birthday Vile!!!

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Uh how do I know this is updated LOL it still shows as 6.0? DUH

Lol...uh, you'll have to wait for the 6.2 update for it to say 6.1

Well, there should be a very different splash screen....

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Yeah I guess there was a different splash screen.

Happy birthday Vile and Tom271!

I feel left out, my birthday won't be until December.... oh well, time to celebrate another "un-birthday"!

Ouch. I brought up the "about" page. Did it freeze up Bryce for anyone else?
I had to ctrl+alt+delete

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The new hdri options looks like a step in the right direction from what I can see of your picture AS. I wonder if they have done anything with the very old and out of date 3ds and obj importer. So I can import my 1000+ objects models :)

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I was wondering why the site kept crashing when I wanted read thorugh the forums.

Than I checked my e-mail and noticed B6.1 is out :)

They cant seem to handle the bandwidth when they release something new.

At least not when it comes to the Bryce crowd :-)

Shows you just how many current Bryce users there are out there.

**The new hdri options looks like a step in the right direction from what I can see of your picture AS.

**-Oh yes, there is now a new level of "complete" control. (Until we want more, of course)

I wonder if they have done anything with the very old and out of date 3ds and obj importer.

-Not sure, lol.

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Yeah,............an overall improvement,.......the render engine seems a bit faster also. Still getting some crashes though,..........but most of the major issues seem to have been resolved. I'm doing a test render now(just installed it).

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There was one change to the .OBJ importer - it now correctly places any referenced bump map into the alpha channel (used to come into the diffuse).

So how do I know which version I have loaded.  I registered for an upgrade from 5 to 6 yesterday and the file that I downloaded then seems to be the same one I downloaded today.  I've reinstalled but I can't see anything that says 6.1 only 6.0.1.

New splash screen for B6.1. You'll get this whenever you start up the program.

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Go to "help" and Ctrl+Click on "About" and you should see this.

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Using one of the new B6.1 HDRIs, "Japanese Alley", on an old scene.

Link to higer-res version

The original render

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No it looks like I've downloaded the 6.0 update again.  It's odd it definitely says it's the 6.1 update on my download page and it shows as only having 3 tries left to download against it.  Odd.

I'll try downloading it again.

Can you tell me what the upgrade file is called and how big it is.  Thanks.

Uncle Riotous, you may need to wait a bit longer, the cache servers are being recached and it may not have reached the one your downloads are pointing to. Try later tonight or tomorrow.

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(waves a mysterious hand) 

It should be called "br_ap006_Br6_App.exe" and be around 40,046Kb (39.1Mb)

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Quote - Using one of the new B6.1 HDRIs, "Japanese Alley", on an old scene.

 

Awesome Eye Candy Image there...made me drool all over my keyboard :)

Guess what I just bought for $49.98!!!?!?!?!? Thats right Bryce 6.1 :)

Now thats what I call Affordable..... even for an unemployed bum like me :)

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After this glass challenge, we'll probably need a metal + HDRI challenge.  That robot HDRI looks wow!

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Quote - After this glass challenge, we'll probably need a metal + HDRI challenge.  That robot HDRI looks wow!

AgentSmith always blows my socks off with the stuff he renders and makes it look easy.... I'm not joking...you should come to my house and see all the socks I've got all over the place ;)

rofl....

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If you are still getting the old B6.0.1 download - READ THIS

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=54838&sid=62f2f7c8803f1ae100f699006f788c77

They have an explanation of what the problem is.

Thanks guys.  I'll try it again later.

Woohoo it worked.

That's good to here Uncle Riotous ...

-darlisa

i've had a little play with it and the HDRI does seem improved. However my attempts at importing models which i had used in B6 resulted in crash after crash...

 

what kind of models?

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Quote - Guess what I just bought for $49.98!!!?!?!?!? Thats right Bryce 6.1 :)

Now thats what I call Affordable..... even for an unemployed bum like me :)

 

Yea I’ve been hanging on to 5  but  I just had to go for it myself at that price. All this HDRI stuff was getting me jealous, now I’ve just got to learn to use it.   I wish all software was this affordable.

 

Well Now I think I may be able to enter the Glass challenge after all now..this update has quartered the time it was taking to render my effort..

Attached Link: B 6.1 HDRI teat image

Actually,..........I have had a couple of minor crashes, but that is mainly due to Poser models being retextured in Bryce.  Overall I am very satisfied. I have posted one HDRI test image

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Quote - what kind of models?

 

poser figures e.g daz troll fully textured and james textured

 

I've got the troll, I'll (be able to) try that out later today, after I see a client.

I'll test it out!

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well, I took the plunge and put 6.1 in on the new box. it only seems to run at 50% (2 cores used, 2 not) any ideas what i am missing?

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Not sure, may have to ask DAZ direct. I'm assuming there you have a quad core?

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No, dual Opteron 280s (2 x 2 core), Cinema rocks with 4 render lines and all pegged at 100%, bryce so far can only do 50%,  uses all cores though. Still, it seems pretty cool.

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Got it sorted, found the priority switch inside bryce, that did the trick

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priority switch inside bryce?

Oh, where?

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Under the little triangle to the right of the render button (render options), third item down.  Have to set to high for all the CPUs to be employed.

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One thing worth mentioning is that Priority isn't saved with the file (so batch renders are always at the default 50% as well as reload) nor is it saved with Launch to Previous State. Not that it matters much but the Low and Normal are just about the same on the PC (around 50%). On the Mac it's 25%, 50%, 100%.

I noticed that, but it's easy to change (just have to remember)

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I take it that this option only appears if you have the relevent hardware?

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Ok, I've been reading this thread for about an hour and my eyes are not only crossing, but, burning as well! :blink:  If I saw the answer to my question, I seriously can't remember, so, I'll risk being drawn and quartered by the masses and please realize I'm not asking to be a pain.

All of the content that isn't native to the install seems to be sitting in my computer in Bryce 6.0.    I don't have any presets that I can't live without, and I didn't think 1 minute into the future to back up the installed content, which doesn't seem to be an issue now that I've seen the undeleted folders.

**Is it just a matter of copying and pasting into the new 6.1 folder, or will I have to totally re-install the content I purchased for Bryce?

**Yes, I'm a fool for not thinking ahead...but, I got caught up in the "AAAHHH!  An update!!" mentality.  I just want to know if I have to head over to DAZ and reset my Bryce downloads and start plugging away again.

Thanks all, 
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I think the content and presets have been altered with 6.1. All your own presets should be retrievable. I believe I saw a bit on that issue over in the daz bryce forum.

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Yeah, some of the content has been updated and/or new presets added, so really you would want to install the NEW preset installers, but as far as old presets, I've just kept those under my "User" section(s), so I just dragged my User folders out, unistalled my B6.0, installed B6.1, and dragged and dropped my User folders back in. All good to go.

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You know, now with this new update that does HDRI faster, I have to re-think what to do for the glass challenge.

Hrm, I just re-rendered in B6.1 one that I was doing in old B6, but with the soft shadows off and either feels just as fast or performance dropped. I'm not sure if it's actual or just my imagination. Is there more than one place to set soft shadows? I went to the sky lab and clicked it off, and it's off in render options. Am I missing any other place?

**Is there more than one place to set soft shadows?

**-Yup. In the IBL section of the Sky Lab, there is the "Quality" slider right underneath the HDRI preview window, take it off the default of 256 and down to 16.

The old "Soft Shadows" button has to do with just the suns shadows, and when you use HDRI, the sun is by default turned off, so that will have no effect. (unless you were to turn it back on (the sun)), and then still that would only affect the shadows made by the sun.

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