Forum: Bryce

Subject: The Ages of Bryce

Paul Francis opened this issue on Jul 30, 2007 · 9 posts

Paul Francis posted Mon, 30 July 2007 at 4:47 PM

Hey hey, been trawling through old CDs and other back-up files, thought this might amuse folks......attached are three versions of the same Bryce file, rendered with 3 different versions of Bryce since at least 1999.....in Bryce 3D I had to simulate soft shadows with an array of 20 lights.....by the time Bryce 5 came around it had soft shadows built in and now added depth of field....now with Bryce 6 we have all of the above plus HDRI!

I had a Bryce 2 version somewhere but it's got lost what with 6 house moves (don't ever get a job in the British Home Office) and 3 PCs since 1997!

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"

 

tom271 posted Mon, 30 July 2007 at 5:49 PM

Wow.. what a treat to see the old programs side by side with the new.....



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Sophies posted Mon, 30 July 2007 at 7:25 PM

How nice to see this. I can remember those dreadful light-domes with hundreds of multireplicated radials with the light intensity set to 1 or 2 i think . They took forever to render but the soft shadows looked very beautiful :)  Heya Bryce :)

draculaz posted Tue, 31 July 2007 at 2:54 AM

that is actually VERY cool!

FarawayPictures posted Tue, 31 July 2007 at 3:24 AM

Very nice. Great experiment and interesting to see.

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dunedan posted Tue, 31 July 2007 at 7:43 AM

Great to see :D

Gog posted Tue, 31 July 2007 at 7:50 AM

Yep great to see, anyone still have the Zenith object - soft light sim?

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

donniemc0 posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 10:31 AM

i have the zenith studio, daylight etc stuff on my bryce 5 but i seldom use them unless i want to render for 2 weeks solid .

 

serendigity59@gmail.com posted Fri, 03 August 2007 at 6:11 PM

Nice comparison of Bryces, but be careful. I got slapped over the knuckles for using a 'Robbie the Robot' model in an image as it is a copyright design owned along with the Forbidden Planet movie by the Time Warner Entertainment Company...