I'm interested to know how many people here are using Bryce regularly, so if you would like to take part and reply with the fllowing. Thanks. :-)

Name: dhama

Age: 50

Area: Sweden

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 2.

What kind of art do you create usually?: 'realistic' landscape scenery.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  maybe one day but Bryce is easier  to use for my simple brain.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? (*must be in your gallery for us to see):  ''*Wet and Dry' - I think I've actually acheived a quite realistic depth, something which I believe is dependent of the light direction and possibly scource. And the textures worked perfectly in this.

Thanks for taking part. :-)

Name: ICM

Age:  47

Area:  Connecticut, USA

How long have you used Bryce?:  Bryce 5 since 99

What kind of art do you create usually?:  *whatever sparks my interest at the time

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  No

What is your favourite Bryce art you have done and why? Can't pick just one, each has it's own special allure due to the level of commitment with each creation.

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Thanks ICM..... I loved your 'North Point' render. Superb!

Name: Gog

Age:  39

Area:  Bristol, UK

How long have you used Bryce?:  Since Bryce 2

What kind of art do you create usually?:  *All sorts very much by mood - bryce now tends to be used to create terrains that I then export.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Doubtful, I have transitioned to mainly model and render from Blender

What is your favourite Bryce art you have done and why? Very difficult for me to say generally most of my pure bryce art is not that good!, it's just part of my pipeline that manily ends at the moment with indigo renderer

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

***Would you ever move over to Vue?:

Heresy!*

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Name: Pakled
Age: dang near 50 (November 18..;)

Area: North Kakalakee

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 5.0. (about 2001 or 2, I fergit)

What kind of art do you create usually?: Space shots, surrealistic, everything but actually realistic landscapes..;).

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I have Vue 3 on the system, but I keep forgetting..;)

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Probably 'Back in Metropolis', my best Poser pic using no Poser..;)

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

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

**Name:  grasshopper1980

** **Age:  27

****Area:  Peoria, Illinois

****How long have you used Bryce?:  Since Feb 2007

****What kind of art do you create usually?:  Oceanscapes, surreal, whatever I can make look good at this point in time

****Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Most likely not.  It was hard enough to learn Bryce, now I'm trying to learn Photoshop.  These were hard enough, don't need to through anything else in, at least not yet.

What is your favourite Bryce art you have done and why?:  All of the images I have on this site.  I don't have a favorite.  I'm proud of all of them.
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Name: Tom271

Age:  middle age 

Area:  Queens, N.Y.

How long have you used Bryce?:  Bryce since v.5

What kind of art do you create usually?:  I use it to render my models and to create scene as well*

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  never say never...

Bryce is my favorite program...

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Name: Thandaluz

Age: 50

Area:  Bahia - Brasil

How long have you used Bryce?: 
2 years 

What kind of art do you create usually?: 
Landscape, Abstract, Jewels, SCIFI, Fantasizes, Models,.... 

Would you ever move over to Vue?: 
 I use VUE regularly for studies and when I like the result I publish in my gallery; but if Bryce didn't come with new resources, VUE can be my second brush.  

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? 
I am not a lot of friend of landscapes, I prefer my models or even working with other artists' models. The textures, colors, and illumination are much more realistic. Perhaps for not having a lot of technique in landscapes or even for the deficiency of Bryce in realism.

My Web Site:
www.microdadosnet.com.br/tharian

Name: Aldaron

Age: 42

Area: Wisconsin, USA

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 4

What kind of art do you create usually?: Sci-Fi/ Fantasy mostly

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Already have, Vue6 Infinite.....Bryce on steroids :)

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? (*must be in your gallery for us to see): * I would have to say "Ambush" was my best in Bryce.
 

Name: sackrat     

Age: 54

Area: Winchester, Virginia

How long have you used Bryce?: 9 years

What kind of art do you create usually?: 
Landscape, Historic, Nature, Abstracts.

Would you ever move over to Vue?: No,.......... I do work with Cinema 4D though.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? 
An image called "Snow" http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1228273&member

"Any club that would have me as a member is probably not worth joining" -Groucho Marx

Name: Chris

Age: 20

Area: USA

How long have you used Bryce?: Since Bryce 5.5 became free.

What kind of art do you create usually?: Starships and space stations.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Doubtful.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Uhh....  A picture that I did with my ship and the Ringworld Halo.   And no, it is not in my gallary.

In order to go forward, one must often times look to the past.

Name: Ruben (nicknames: Ray, ZZtop)

Age:  21 (almost 22)

Area:  Amstelveen, The Netherlands

How long have you used Bryce?:  Since Bryce 2

What kind of art do you create usually?:  *Whatever comes to mind really. pencil and paper, 2d and 3d digital art, music, that kinda things.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Maybe, i dont know. So far my experience with old vue versions was that the program was rather instable.

What is your favourite Bryce art you have done and why? I dont know... u tell me!

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Name: Alex Age: 22 Area: Manchester, UK How long have you used Bryce?: 5 years What kind of art do you create usually?: I wouldn't really say its art. Would you ever move over to Vue?: Never. What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Maybe 'F-Zero Grand Prix', since its a bit of a departure from my usual style.

Quote - ***Would you ever move over to Vue?:

Heresy!*

 

Thanks for taking part... no really! 

A real thanks to the rest of you guys, nice to know there is a working community here, was starting to think it was a bit shallow since I don't see many Bryce art... well moreso for Vue, which is why I asked the question. It's a fact that Vue can do more than Bryce, but I like Bryce, and I hope version 7 comes up with the goods Vue users are so good at rubbing our faces in about.

Keep em coming...... ;-)

Name: deadwarrior

Age: 56

Area: Los Angeles

How long have you used Bryce?: Since Bryce 5.0 became available.

What kind of art to you create usually?: Landscapes, Fantasy, Surrealism, SciFI (sometimes).

Would you ever move over to Vue?: I haven't tried it, but then I like to try different types of  3D programs. I'd love to try VUE and matte scenes or objects into Bryce. Besides, I like to keep a diversified art toolbox and not concentrate on one particular program. (Though Bryce has become my favorite and remains so).

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?: I'm still geting a getting the feel when it comes to Bryce and since I don't have a body of work posted in Bryce, I really can't say.

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, Come Inside, Come Inside."

"Brain Salad Surgery"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Attached Link: www.rantsu.com

**Name:** Antti **Age:** 24 **Area:** Finland **How long have you used Bryce?:** just for two years **What kind of art do you create usually?:** mainly fantasy and scifi art.. mr Tolkien's tales have been the greatest source of inspiration **Would you ever move over to Vue?:**No idea... **What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?** I think I like most my latest one: The Secret Garden, it just turned out far better than i thought and there were so many obstacles when doing that so i'm happy now:)

Name:          Chohole  (aka Pam)

Age:               Never ask a lady her age, but just for you I am past retirement age.

Area:              Richmond, Surrey (UK)

How long have I used Bryce?;          since I got Bryce 2 on a mag cover, whenever that was.

What kind of art do I create usually:              I hate to be predictable, it depends how the mood takes me.

Would I ever move over to vue?;                   Absolutely no, tried a free demo once, hated it, haven't changed my mind yet.

What is my most favourite bryce art that I have done and why?               Now that is a good question.  My most popular with others here was "Peace in the valley",  my most succesful elsewhere was "On St Patrick's day" (the 2005 version, because a hard copy of it is now in the heritage centre of the village I showed, and my most poignant for me was "The last rose of Summer" becuse it was posted originally on the 1st anniversary on my eldest son's death.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Name: Richard
Age: sneaking up on 46 (carefully!)
Area: Montreal, Canada
How long: since Bryce 2
Vue: Not likely, I tend to work mostly in Cinema4D but still dig into Bryce (6.1) to work landscapes/backgrounds/certain procedural textures and the occasional artwork.
What kind of art: All over the map, I think I tend to do fantasy themes a bit more than the others.
Favourite Bryce work: Not sure if I can name one specifically.

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Name: vangogh Age: 57 Area: Dayton, Ohio How long have you used Bryce?: Since 2000 What kind of art do you create usually?: Off the wall art, art fueled mainly by ideas and concepts. Would you ever move over to Vue?: Maybe someday....tried to download the demo (version 6), but was not successful. What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? The current one in my gallery, But then.....the current one is always my favorite.

Name: Death (at midnight)

Age: Too darn young.

Area: Coffee shops mostly, where ever there's 'net access.

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 5

What kind of art do you create usually?: Whatever comes to mind. Though it seems whatever I can do with HDRI nowdays. Check out my gallery (http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/member.php?my_gallery)

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  There's no need to insult me with the V word.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Tsubo Niwa. I love the color of grass, shallow water, and the soft glow of lanterns in twilight. It is a courtyard garden--tsubo niwa--which is an expression of a rich culture. There's history involved, and although Japan is a 1st world, technological country, there's a connection to the past. It's also symbolic for inner tranquility. And courtyard gardens are usually hidden, often secret gardens, tucked away in a cornor, in a room, between houses, in an alley. They are often a source of awe and fascination to me.

Name: AnnieD
Age: Older than dirt..
Area: Missouri
How long have you used Bryce?: I started learning to use it this year.
**What kind of art do you create usually?:  ** Scenery and animals
Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I would add it to my list of progs to learn..
What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?   Play Ball!    
The  colors came out good. :D

 

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”

[Stuart Chase]

Name:  rosie
age: whatever you think i a
area: india
how long have i been using bryce? since bryce 4
what kinda art? conceptual
would i ever move to vue: no
favorite bryce art? temptations. (both bryce and poser) . been bad at putting up art work here... will do that sometime..

Name: Skiwillgee

Age: 13 going on 61

Area: North Carolina, USA

How long have you used Bryce?: since Coreal Bryce 5.0

What kind of art do you create usually?:  I still don't know.  Look at my gallery; I'm all over the place

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  No I'm too cheap and stupid

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? (*must be in your gallery for us to see): 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=887960 

"Norh Sea Sentinal"  because it was my first posting and I still think it is my best Bryce work.  Why is this italics I can't change it?   See I'm dumb at some things.

It's italic because when you copied and pasted from the original it was in italic...and you didn't change it.  :D

next time it does that to you..just highlite the text you want to change back... go to top of reply window and hit the italic button..or whatever you want to change.

 

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”

[Stuart Chase]

Heheh! a lot of older folk like myself here, but also a broad range of ages.

@ Rosie, Get that art up now! ok, you've been told. :-D 

@ vangogh, I tried that demo download too, and the file was just corrupt.

@ Skiwillgee, Hehehe! welcome to the club.

@ AnnieD, well i'm kinda older than dirt myself, but learning new art apps... not a chance! :-D

@ Antti, Cool website and renders.

Thanks you other guys for sharing, beautiful renders. Keep em coming!

Name: Thelby

Age: Old enough to know how, Young enough to play

Area: The Other Side of the Island

How long have you used Bryce?: Since May 2006 and with 5.5

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Landscapes

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Already there and YES I bought the T-shirt, too!!!

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? "Almost Paradise", because it was my very First ever image created and rendered using HRDI as Lighting and I think Bryce 6.1 Rocks with it. Takes it up to a whole new level. I will always Love Bryce, she was my first object importing 3D Program. Taught me the basics for building scenes that transposes over to other 3D Apps ;^D

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Name:  buckzero

Age: 52

Area: South Carolina

How long have you used Bryce?: Started with B5 from Corel

What kind of art do you create usually?: Various

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Maybe

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?  Not one but all because of the way it was made or subject, anything I don't like never sees the light of day.

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Name: orbital
Age: 33
Area: UK

How long have you used Bryce?: Bryce 3 2001

What kind of art do you create usually?: Mostly Sci-fi Fantasy.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Possible, given the superior features, but sometimes it's best to stick to what you know, and also it's not what you use but how you use it.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Probably "Places you've never been".

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

Name: Questor4

Age: 30 someting :)

Area: UK

How long have you used Bryce?: since approx 04

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Buildings, structures & landscape type scenes.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I have used it before, but didnt like it.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? I am too much of a perfectionist, so Im never 100% happy with any image i make, I know i can do better but sometimes lose patience !! ,....Tricky,, I guess "alien world" is my fave, It's one of the 1st bryce pictures I made. I originally made it as a wallpaper and used it for ages on my desktop.
Link:
 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1500944&member

@ AnnieD. 

Well duhh,  I kept trying to delete the line, retype it, click italics on and off (it was not highlighted like I thought it should have been as if italics were selected)  MY bad. Thanks,  I'll probably forget it next time too.

dhama..like skiwillgee, i'm dumb at things..

and lazy...ok ....so i admit it

• probs is... just the thought of resizing those images to put it up give me a migraine put it this way..i've changed my avatar a gazillion times today... resized it to even smaller than the given size110x96 pixels and 10 kb to boot.... and i still got told it was too big!!! finally managed it again... it got thru....but i'm still seeign the old avatar.

yup, yup though.i get the message...been away for a long timewill be back with a vengeance and ppix in a week.... just finished printing some stuff  on silk cloth for a museum...lemme close that project...

btw.WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO USE VUE?????????????

For me Vue has the ecosystem, and that alone makes me envious.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

Quote - For me Vue has the ecosystem, and that alone makes me envious.

 

Ecosystem, deep texture editing (layers of materials until your comp chokes :)  ), realistic atmosphere calculations. Many of the sytem is the same as Bryce....so I'm in heaven :)

Name: Boekenwuurm

Age: 19

Area: The Netherlands

How long have you used Bryce?: 2 years i think

What kind of art do you create usually?: Fantasy and realistic.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Vue? Maybe if DAZ in the future not release a version of bryce with someting like ecosystem.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? 'As sand through a hourglass' because it was my first bryce image that is good enough for posting, and i like the look of the glas and the fantasy style of the overall image. Also I liked the houerglass (love metabals) and my next image will have it again.

Attached Link: http://www.irfanview.com

> Quote - > - probs is... just the thought of resizing those images to put it up give me a migraine put it this way..i've changed my avatar a gazillion times today... resized it to even smaller than the given size110x96 pixels and 10 kb to boot.... and i still got told it was too big!!! finally managed it again... it got thru....but i'm still seeign the old avatar.

Have you ever tried................ Irfanview?

XnView  (http://www.xnview.com)

yup.... irfanview when photoshop crashed on me and the cd wasn't with me.
xnview???? just popped the site on in another tab... looking thru it

Name: SunsetHunter

Age: 41

Area: Melboune, Australia

How long have you used Bryce?: 18 months

What kind of art do you create usually?: Scientific surrealism (I coined that term myself!)

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I've tried to already....but I just find Bryce so much more inspirational that Vue 5 remains virtually forgotten on my hard drive. I'll try again one day!

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? "Mother Earth" because of who its about and "Theatre of the Spirit" because of its design.

Name: Lown (should have beeb Low N!) aka Leon Butchers aka Foxy Lexa!
Age: 31....OMG im getting old!!
Area: Helsinki, Finland but origianally from the Isle of Wight, England.
How long have you used Bryce: About a year and a half!
What kind of art: Scifi, scifi and some more scifi for good measure.
Would you move to Vue: I could be persuaded, have messed around with some free demos and the features are awesome! Uh-oh here come the Cardinals!!!
My favourite Bryce pic: Probably would have to be "Arrival".

Name: John McCulloch

Age: 44

Area: southeastern New Mexico, USA

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 2 was released for Windows.

What kind of art do you create usually?: A variety of styles from as realistic as I can make it all the way to toony as I can go. Uses: Illustration, fine art, conceptual art, etc. I use it as a renderer only now. I use Rhino and Wings to model.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Not likely. I'm working with RenderMan-compliant renderers as well as Bryce, and Bryce suits me just fine.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? I still like this one, "Professor Lug's Laboratory," because it's a complete scene and Bryce did exactly what I needed for the illustration:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=995498

Thanks for the link on you link. I wondered what had been going on with this.

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Name: FranOnTheEdge

Age: mumble mumble mumble

Area: Resident at a college in Surrey until mid Sept - then hopefully at Newport University, Wales

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce3D - pre version 4.

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Mostly sci-fi - I like sci-fi, but some urban streets too.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  No, can't afford it, I like Bryce too much anyway.

**What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?
I'm quite happy with "**Where's My Ball Gone?" I liked the textures and this is also an animation - the quality of which isn't great but that's because the original had to be so small., it's a Bryce thing...

*http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1436335

*I've also recently been using it to create a company promotion for an internet TV & Radio service, a short animation, but no link for that as the final version hasn't been seen by the client yet.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

Fran, if you're on your way to Newport, drop in on the way by, I'm just north of the M4 bristol turning....

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@Boekenwuurm

Heeey fellow dutchie! which part of the netherlands are u from then?

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and there's someone else from NC? dang, who woulda thought?..;)

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

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

**Name **       kiwi_gg

Age            59 in a couple of days

Area          The Avatar might give it away

How long using bryce?   Demo version Bryce 3D sometime around 2001 when I first learnt how to use a computer.

What sort of art      What ever takes my fancy really.

Would I move to Vue.    WHY??????? I'm still trying to learn Bryce!!

Favourite bryce art. Anything I create that I learn something from.

Cheers 
GG    

WHO said Kiwi's can't Fly ?????

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Heeey fellow dutchie! which part of the netherlands are u from then?

 

From Braband, between Den Bosch and Eindhoven. Nice to meet fellow a dutchman brycer

It's so nice to meet all you guys... I'm so glad Bryce is so popular. :-)

Especially in the Bryce Forum ;-)

**Gog,
**> Quote - Fran, if you're on your way to Newport, drop in on the way by, I'm just north of the M4 bristol turning....

It's not actually firm yet - there seem to be a few problems - like I dunno yet if I'll get the maintainance grant - and without that I can't afford to go, plus now it seems you aren't allowed to park a car there - so how the heck I'm supposed to get there with all my stuff - plus the vast list of equipment we're supposed to bring with us as well - without me being able to pack it all in the car - well.... I dunno at all. 

Looks like I'll have to get someone (dunno who) to drive me up there and then abandon me with all my belongings - in - it seems, a very unsafe area... (talk of private insurance needed - which BTW I've tried to get before but can't find any insurers who can do that)...

Oh gawd...

My nerves are beginning to fray rather.

Otherwise Gog, (lol!) I'd be happy to drop in on the way... It'd be nice to meet another Rendo denizen...

P.S. Anybody know what an "optical 8-camera Vicon Motion Capture facility" - might be when it's at home?

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

Name: mjhatch

Age:  43

Area:  Queensland  Australia

How long have you used Bryce?:  Bryce 4 since about 96

What kind of art do you create usually?:  *Sci/Fi, but I do live landscapes.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  Not my cup of tea really.

What is your favourite Bryce art you have done and why? My favorite piece is always the last one I've done. Self discovery I think would be my best answer.

Quote -
P.S. Anybody know what an "optical 8-camera Vicon Motion Capture facility" - might be when it's at home?

 

Not sure about that one, but it sure sounds like a device that is capable of those 'Matrix' style shots.

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**> Quote -

P.S. Anybody know what an "optical 8-camera Vicon Motion Capture facility" - might be when it's at home?

 

Sounds like something from Star Wars ;)

You might want to look here:- http://www.vicon.com/

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Quote - > Quote -

P.S. Anybody know what an "optical 8-camera Vicon Motion Capture facility" - might be when it's at home?

 

Not sure about that one, but it sure sounds like a device that is capable of those 'Matrix' style shots.

Actually how they did those Matrix style shots was the result of years of insane camera setups(I guess you could basically call it a camera array since the setup had so many cameras in it) and then intense CGI.  At least that's how they did the bullets.  Everything else was done with wires.

Name: **
Seven Of Eleven

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Age: **
? Lifetime experiance counters down**

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Area:
NYC

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How long have you used Bryce?:
Started with Bryce 2 or Bryce 3d way back when with a mac.

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What kind of art do you create usually?:
Almost anything except porn, Darn!
Been studying pictures of pokemon and neopets, be very afraid.

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Would you ever move over to Vue?:

**Not a "purist" so I will visit. Been using Bryce skies in Lightwave pictures and Lightwave /Truespace models in Bryce pictures so if I can mix it in I will. At the end of the day, software is just a tool. Oh yeah, Photoshop for postwork too.
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What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why?
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Powerless/The moment, not sure which one.

Attached Link: The Lake House

**Name:** JoJo

Age: 48

Area: USA

How long have you used Bryce?: About a year, Bryce 5 and 6

What kind of art do you create usually?: Realistice scenes and landscapes

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I'm not really familiar with the program and have no plans at present to.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Probably the Lake House. It's one of the first projects that I did of this kind that I modeled almost entirely myself. I enjoy doing architecture scenes.

Name: Peter
Age: 46
Area: Tasmania Australia.

How long have you used Bryce?: Bryce 2

What kind of art do you create usually?: Abstract/Sci-fi**.** Or Background plates for photo manipulation.

Would you ever move over to Vue?: No. 3ds Max covers every things I want. 

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Galileo 7 is my fave. I love the colours, and the fact nobody has worked out how it was done.

Name: Staticon

Age: A few weeks under 52

Area: UK

How long have you used Bryce?: since 2

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Whatever takes my fancy

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  No - but I am playing with Blender with a view to dumping the MicroSoft OS

**What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Whatever I have just created. Because I have just created it. :p
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Staticon, I can use bryce 5 under WINE in ubuntu linux. I can recomend ubuntu as a distro, although I have also used and enjoyed Suse. That said Blender rocks and is worth the perserverance, any help fire questions away in the blender forum!

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

Quote - I can recomend ubuntu as a distro......

I have tried Ubuntu recently and must agree that it is a good distro - though I don't get on too well with the Gnome desktop. I know they do a version with the KDE desktop which I really must get around to trying out as I have preferred KDE since I first flirted with Linux a few years back.

For some reason, Suse never seems to like my PC. I can only presume it's a motherboard thing.

I am, currently, trying out some of the tutorials on the Blender site but I think it will be some time before I produce anything of my own - time is always too limited. And I will certainly seek assistance on the Blender forum should I get hopelessly stuck.

Thanks for the heads-up about WINE. I will certainly need that for my Tomb Raider level editing. :-)

Must admit I've always used K rather then gnome (foraround 8 years now) until I installed ubuntu about 4 months ago, I flipped a coin as to whether to go kubuntu or see if gnome was as good as people say. (I also fancy trying Beryl (the vista stylee desktop) and that appears to be regarded as working much better on gnome)

The two top blender resources (IMHO) are blender noob to pro and the blender wiki keyboard shortcuts list....

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference/Hotkey_Map

Blender is much easier if you have a 3rd arm added and an 10002 key keyboard :).

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

Thanks for those links. :-)

Strangely, they are the two main sites I have been browsing for tutorials. We must be on the same wavelength.

I had a quick test spin on the live version of Ubuntu about a month ago (I try most of the distros they give away on Linux Format coverdisks) but still not fond of Gnome. Maybe I like being able to tweak systems a bit too much.

And I'm hoping to get a 10002 key keyboard for Christmas. :-D

Whats the difference between the different flavors of Unix?
Is it that some versions specialize in different things or what?

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And I'm hoping to get a 10002 key keyboard for Christmas. :-D

 

Cool... i've been reading up on that very keyboard:

*"10002 key keyboard uses the Datagram Protocol, a communications protocol for the Internet network layer, transport layer, and session layer. This protocol when used over the 10002 key keyboard makes possible the transmission of a datagram message from one computer to an application running in another computer. Like TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP is used with IP (the Internet Protocol) but unlike TCP on the 10002 key keyboard , the 10002 key keyboard is connectionless and does not guarantee reliable communication; it's up to the application that received the message on the  10002 key keyboard to process any errors and verify correct delivery."

*...Sounds like a good bye to me....... Good bye!

Quote - Whats the difference between the different flavors of Unix?

With Unix, there are relatively few flavours - mainly variations introduced by various mainframe manufacturers or educational establishments to suit their hardware or requirements.

Linux is a different, though Unix compatible, OS. The diverse amount of flavours here represent various collections of software and optimisations for a large variety of platforms and applications.

For example, there are distibutions aimed at newcomers (Ubunto, Mandriva, etc.), distro's for power users, tweakers, hobbyists, musicians. Some are designed to run on older hardware, some for servers, some for desktops, some for games - in fact, if you can think of a specialist computing requirement, there is probably a distro aimed at those users already.

There are also distro's aimed at the free and open-source purists that contain no proprietry software, and others that are packed with closed source drivers and apps.

Hence the huge choice available. And the beauty of it all is that, in most cases, all it will cost you is the download time.

Plus, if you wish to modify anything (from software right through to the kernel itself), and you are able to program, then you are free to modify the code to your hearts content. The source code for most software is usually downloadable as well. And if your modifiacations are good, you can submit them back to the core teams for possible inclusion in later releases.

The only drawback is that it is not quite as easy to use as Windows - but they are working on that and have made considerable progress over the last few years. :-)

I'm using Ubuntu... and may have serious Wine and beowulf-like questions to ask someone more knowledgeable than me in this.....

I've been flirting with Linux for a few years now but still have not taken the plunge and switched wholly to it. Consequently, my tech knowledge is very limited at present. :-(

There is a good on-line resource, though. www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php They have archives of past tutorials in PDF format and a lively forum dedicated to Linux. They could be useful.

I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with tight shackles Microsoft impose on their users so, I feel the time may be approaching to make the switch

I'm in the same boat as Staticon as far as operating systems go.  But I do know that Mandriva is a fairly good operating system.  Just stay away from Solaris 10, which is Unix.  It's a powerful OS made by Sun Microsystems (you know, the guys that make Java) and you can get it for free now.  Threw that in my laptop after making sure it was compatible, took even longer to install than XP.  To top that off, you basically have to manually configure Solaris 10.  Recognizes only 1 mouse,  as well.  Also could never get my audio to work.

But never go with Vista.  2 very major problems with it right out of the box that I do know of.  IPV6 is the internet protocal of the the future.  Haven't gotten there yet, we are still using IPV4.  Vista comes with IPV6 activated.   DHCP networks.  It only likes Microsoft DHCP networks because it has something call a DHCP Broadcast Flag, now you can remove that flag or turn it off by going into the registry, but then again, if you go into the registry and you don't know exactly what you are doing, you will turn you pc into a very large paper weight.  There are also other problems, many more, but I don't know what they are.  YAY Microsoft!!!!!!!  They did all of these things because your average pc user doesn't know how to find network settings or edit the registry and many other things, so that way they have to pay Microsoft more money to get them fixed.

Your best bet is sticking with XP until they make it to where you can't use it anymore, get a mac, or find a linux system that does it for you(there is a multitude of them out there).

Fortunately I run a mixed system at my place. My laptops are all Vista, my desktops are mixed between XP and Win2000. When I run my render farm, it is usually the XP and w2k computers. I've had no problems with Vista at all. I also have Ubuntu installed on an older computer. That computer used to have Debian, and before that, SuSE. I have used other OS's, specifically Solaris, but these I never had to install on my own. They were already installed, and they behaved better than Linux at the time.

If I were to buy a new system, I would buy Vista, but if I were to buy a UNIX system, I would buy a Mac, since OS X is based on BSD UNIX.

But what I need to do now days is make a serious experiment into the realm of clustering, and in that, Beowulf clusters. This by default implies Linux, and I shall be using Ubuntu. I had to stop myself this Thursday from ordering several dual cores micro ATX's, and other hardware.. several thousand dollars. Needed more research into the software. What I really need is a HPC (high performance cluster) to run one Windows-only engineering application. I've checked out the WINE pages and they have a nice database of apps which have been tested. Unfortunately the very same app I need to make run does not behave well with WINE. So I'm looking for options. I'm disappointed there's no easy solution to implement a HPC for Windows... although ppl say there is.. but lots of pages that do specialize in beowulf how-to's are extremely biased. In the realm of business, it is not usually a decision of convenience that makes purchasing choices, but of the need. I need this one Windows app in a high computer environment. So I'm looking around for options. I'm open to go with Linux as the OS, as long as I can do what is needed to be done.

Thanks for the unix info, I will probably do some fussing with the unix inside the mac.

Heard something about someone doing a cluster of mac minis.
Mac minis and cheap and small. The new ones support gigabit ethernet.

Leopard yes, Vista not so much.

Death_at_Midnight, very glad that you have not had any problems with Vista.  I work for Mediacom in the technician support department.  To this day, I have seen only 2 out of I can't even count how many Vista machines actually get onto the internet.  I am very glad that you haven't had any problems with that.  But for the one program, since it doesn't work very well in wine, and forgive me for not knowing so much about it, but does that use an NDIS wrapper?  As I understand it, the NDIS wrapper basically allows you to use microsoft programs in Linux by using microsoft drivers with it.  Or something to that effect.

Also, I have seen the Mac OS 10 work on a PC, without having to run it through some type of emulation like you have to do (or used to) to get Windows to run on a Mac.

This is something of interest:

http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/

Microwulf: A Personal, Portable Beowulf Cluster

Supercomputer power at $1,256.  Not too shabby.

For WINE, I am not a WINE expert, and this would be the only reason I have to actually mess about with WINE... well, other than maybe putting Bryce on Linux (which will be something I would be doing on these systems).

If emulation would be the way to go to get this thing going, then I would like to know more. I looked into WINE b/c Wine Is Not an Emulator, but I am opened to suggestions even about emulation.

A friend today has mentioned virtualization.... I'm not up-to-date on virtualization in the Linux world, so I hope to hit some sites about this tonight/tomorrow.

This level of messing with Linux will be quite a learning experience for me. It's not just about installing a distribution, which I have done many times, this seems a new adventure. Some here in this forum will already know what I have been preparing to do for the last six months. I'm getting close to actually doing it. Any help, words of advice/wisdom will be appreciated.

Well, the emulation I meant was when they figured out how to run XP on a Mac, they basically had to emulate the pc setup.  Now, I have seen the Mac OS 10 run on a pc, and without all of the complicated hacker/programming/rigging emulation that they had to throw together to run windows on the mac.

Can you please start an 'Alternative OS to Windows' thread, and put this one back on course. Thankyou.

Hej dhama.
Name: Sophie

Age: HMM ;)

Area: Sweden.

How long have you used Bryce?:  Since Bryce 4 i think.

What kind of art do you create usually?: I mostly dwells in DTE and skylab.

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I have Vue 6 PRO, but i love Bryce the most of them.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? I don't have so many pictures in my gallery and they are sooo old.

Name: CrazyDawg

Age: 46

Area: Bunbury, Western Australia

How long have you used Bryce?: Since i joined up on here

What kind of art do you create usually?: Anything i can, i'll give anything a go once.

Would you ever move over to Vue?: Maybe someday....tried Vue PLE, little confusing but am willing to learn it one day..got others i want to learn to use first though..

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? Nothing i have posted under this nickname, Image i like i had deleted when my old account was banned(don't ask)

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

 

Well, what we should all understand is we all don’t approve to be subjected to this kind of superfluous and media guided questioning. Many of us don’t mind but some do. If you really want to view our best works then you should really visit our individual galleries. But since you’re interested on whether or not the rest of us are interested in Vue…and that is your real question, I would have to say that generally here in Bryce the answer is no. I own the bastard progie and the only thing I like of it is it’s renderor for its soft and warm colors. Other than that, Bryce is it. That’s why Poser comes to Bryce for render. 

Quest

Quote - Well, what we should all understand is we all don’t approve to be subjected to this kind of superfluous and media guided questioning. Many of us don’t mind but some do. If you really want to view our best works then you should really visit our individual galleries.
Quest

 

Those who wish to take part, do...... and those who don't, well, they do as well apparently. :laugh:

Quote - But since you’re interested on whether or not the rest of us are interested in Vue…and that is your real question, I would have to say that generally here in Bryce the answer is no. I own the bastard progie and the only thing I like of it is it’s renderor for its soft and warm colors. Other than that, Bryce is it. That’s way Poser comes to Brycer for render.
Quest

 

My question on Vue was a valid one. Bryce is excellent which is why I use it. It doesn't have advanced features like Eco systems etc. which Vue does, and which I don't have. The point of the question was to see if anybody felt Vue would be an addition to the tools we use, and nothing else. I'm sorry you felt it necesary to launch an attack in this way. But I forgive you.

Quote - My opinion and as I state it.

Quest

 

And your opinion is graciously accepted.

Hi Quest, Just taken a look at your gallery, Excellent Bryce renders, specially liked High Sierras. 

'And for a note, I am looking at everyones gallery from this thread. Havn't had time to see all yet, but I will. And I hope it encourages other people to look too, since If miss some of the art when it was first uploaded others might too. And it's a good way to get to know people. 

Hi Sophie, I love your fairytale aspected scenes, especially I hate him.Now i have to wait for the bus again. which made me smile.

Hi Crazy Dawg, Your Lighting Test was actually better than you thought in my opinion. Your other renders are excellent too.

Quite simply...you're full of shit!

Quote - Quite simply...you're full of shit!

 

Quite simply...that was uncalled for Quest and honestly mate i had thought better of you, infact i never thought you would stoop so low as to give that kind of reply...

I know my reply will get a retort thats not far from your last one but hey i come to expect it now.

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

 

Quote - from QuestQuite simply...you're full of shit!

 

Thankyou my dear friend, your reply was so eloquent....

Hrm. Is this what happens when moderators go away for a little while? dhama - I've enjoyed this thread. Its nice to find out a little bit of whats behind the names. Nice idea.

Thanks alexclark, my thoughts exactly.

OH NO . Why must people start uggly flame-wars ? I hate it  :cursing:  Where is AS ?  Is he beta testing Bryce 12 ?  :blink:  Thank you dhama .You have so many beautiful pictures in your gallery .

Hey you guys, give Quest a chance, this is a bad time of the year for him.

If you are regular forum users then you will know why!

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Is this the Bryce Forum or the Poser Forum?

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, Come Inside, Come Inside."

"Brain Salad Surgery"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

No, I'm afraid don't know why Quest is so upset.

Quest, If my last post offended you I apologize. I was not aware of any personal problems.

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, Come Inside, Come Inside."

"Brain Salad Surgery"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

It's the date.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Its good to have a meet and greet and see something of who is behind the icon.

I have no problems with the Vue question, its not like it does not exist.
Can't have a community of Bryce users if no one knows anybody or
we just know the mods/coords.

Doing 3d tends to be solitary, maybe we need more group projects.

Hi Quest, I'm sorry if you are upset today. I don't know why as I haven't seen any of your other threads, but i'd just like to say that the add friend invitation is still open if you are interested. I am not offended by your posts. What do you say?

SevenOfEleven.............the monthly challenge used to bring us all together, but that seems to have got derailed slightly just lately.

Dhama..........as I said check the date, and just remember, some people have more reason then others to remember.........nuff said.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Thanks chohole. Now I remember Quest's posts.
Very bad day for all of us.
Worst for Quest.
Depressed too.
LACFD Firefighter/HazMat. Retired

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, Come Inside, Come Inside."

"Brain Salad Surgery"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

My sincere apologies to all, Dhama especially to you, there is no excuse. Crazydog you’re right, I’m sorry. Deadwarrior, love your work. Chohole, thank you. 

Quest

Quest, there is no need for thanks, I know just what you must be going through, today of all days.

I only lost my job through the events of  6 years ago, you lost much, much more.

Plus of course you were there.

My thoughts were with you today as I watched coverage of memorial events in the UK.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

In the circumstances there is no need for apologies my friend, I just hope each year brings you less pain and grief. 

Om Mani Peme Om..............*

Quest i remember the date well. I know a lot of people hurt stil due to it and i'm sorry mate i had forgot about you on this date.

Ok that said i would like to put a couple of questions forward and these can be answered by anyone or all if you like.

1, where has the family feeling this forum had when i signed up on it gone..you could come on here at anytime and you would see wip's, comments, little jokes made by regulars and new members..it seems to have gone and even though i don't post much i miss that.

2, where are the old brycers gone, people like drac, drawbridge, bryster..the list goes on, not seening them much here as well, gee i remember when they would come on and have a dig at each other as well as help others with images they were working on...have they all gone over to carrara or some other program.

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

 

Some of us are still here. A lot have moved on to other programs and places though.

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Forums are like travelling. You see a nice spot and stay for a while, but eventually everyone must move on.

Bryce has been around for a long time, and there has been a large gap between releases. Unfortunatly some people wanted more power and perhaps changed to 3DS , Maya, Vue, Carrara, this list goes on. 
I used Bryce back in the early days, but for me I went on to write music instead and moved away from 3D. But the free Bryce 5.5 got me interested again and I just had to buy 6.1 at the very reasonable price.
I'm not stuck with Bryce though, if I found something that I thought would improve my art, then I wouldn't hesitate. Lets hope Bryce 7 with its 10,000 trees etc. gets here sooner rather than later.

Challenges are good but its sorta like "Here is a challenge' and folks rush off to their labs and start cooking up stuff.

How about tag team challenges?
4 artists go into the steel cage and 2 walk or crawl out!
Well, not that intense but could be more fun than being hit with a chair.

Great modeller but not so good with the scene layout, find a team mate thats good would scene composition. Have seen other sites when artists collab and the end result can look better than what the 2 artists do on their own. Can be a good learning experiance working with another person.

Maybe at the end of the year a great collab battle royal!
4 on 4 collab battles!
Let bounce the metaballs of art!

Some time ago, I don't remember which gallery, they had a group collab project.
We had to do a room with a toybox, somebody started the scene and people added to it.
At the end we had an interesting scene.
This is a way to get a community, projects that people do together.
We keep the regular challenges too, that will not change.

Collaborative challenges would be a great way to build more of a 'community spirit'. It also seems like a good way for less experienced Brycers to learn some tricks, and the results could be especially interesting when artists of different styles get together.

We have just had a really good, totally impromptu, challenge over at daz in the commons forum.

THe challenge was set by a 5 year old, who told us what she wanted us to render, and she would give a prize to the winner.

The prize was an image made by said 5 year old.

There were 41 entries, and we had tremendous fun with it, and lots of interaction during the challenge.

It even inspired one modeller to produce some of the items she said could be included, which were offered free during the challenge.

Now do we have any 5 year old brycers.

Forgot to mention this 5 year old uses Daz studio.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

CrazyDawg asked :
*1, where has the family feeling this forum had when i signed up on it gone..you could come on here at anytime and you would see wip's, comments, little jokes made by regulars and new members..it seems to have gone and even though i don't post much i miss that.

*The biggest change I noticed was when the format changed and you could no longer see who had been posting to a thread without entering it. I really miss that aspect of the old format. I can't explain why, but I know it makes a huge difference.

But I have also noticed a huge drop in the flamewars and such. Maybe for the same reason? I don't know. But if anyone was around here 3 to 4 yrs ago, the flames were always popping up and being put out by AS.

For me, I feel like the new thread format is terrible. I still hate the unintuitive having to go back to the top to get out. And I hate not being able to pop into a thread where I left off.

Thank you Chohole for remembering the day.

Attached Link: Spring Morning

**Name:** Eric

Age: 39

Area: West Texas, USA

How long have you used Bryce?: Since Bryce 4.0... about 1999

What kind of art do you create usually?: anything and everything

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  not likely... use Carrara pretty much exclusively, now... but still play with Bryce, and these guys here are a lot like family... which is probably why I visit so seldom, lately.  :o)  In fact, am enjoying watching my 3 yr old son (Bryce) learning to use Bryce. He can come up with some pretty surreal stuff sometimes.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? (*must be in your gallery for us to see): * probably Spring Morning (linked above) was really pleased with the colors, the mood, the depth... one of those where I couldn't take my eyes of that little white render line as it slowly progressed... probably watched the whole thing render.

Beautiful image Eric, I can understand why its your favourite.

Attached Link: Kanchi

**Name:** Kanchi

Age: 52

Area: Netherlands (Holland)

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 1 (MAC at my office), later versions in PC

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Sience Fiction and Landscapes
Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I am so used to the Bryce interface that getting used to other progs needs time. have some 3DS experience tho.
What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? My Retropolis images  and Raumpatrouille Orion images and animations. Feel free to visit my website at www.hennyvanveenendaal.nl and leave a nice note in my guestbook please :)