Hi All, I was just in a public  featured chat over at Daz artzone and got a quick question in to Dan Farr about bryce... here's where it went. Daz_Dan is Dan Farr and Daz_Chris is Chris Creek, the other co-exec guy over at daz.

Most of it we know, but there's a few other bits that we didn't.

(I've cleaned it up a bit to remove irrelevant comments to bryce or repeated comments from multiple users)

Dave L.

Flak says (14:11):
question: bryce?
DAZ_chris says to  (14:11):
now there's a loaded one.
Flak says (14:11):
:D
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:12):
Bryce is probably the toughest one to address right off of the bat.
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:12):
The dev team that we had worked with is not working out as well as we would like. We are working on getting a newer group to help us.
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:13):
Quite frankly speaking we are also consider the possibilty of going open source with it as well.
maclean says to  (14:13):
Bryce?
GhostWulf says to  (14:13):
interesting
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:13):
I am still talking about Bryce.
blondie9999 says to  (14:13):
Which would mean what, exactly?  "Open source"
DAZ_chris says to  (14:13):
Ofcourse we would be directing it all from here.
Radkres says to  (14:13):
Lynx ver?
mors_d says to  (14:13):
actual OSS, or something like BSD?
Nester751 says to  (14:14):
*Really open source I mean
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:14):
We will not make that decision lightly but are looking to different options.
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:14):
We will engage the Bryce community to help us make this decision.
BlackSpartan says to  (14:14):
Open Source means that we could in theory compile Linux and etc versions of Bryce
DAZ_chris says to  (14:14):
Bryce needs to continue to grow. By no way would this be considered abandonment.
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:14):
We may also have some legal aspects around it that will determine what level we can go with.
Flak says (14:15):
some of the dte code is one of the issues isn't it?
DAZ_chris says to  (14:15):
We would have an internal P.M to drive it forward.
Lyrra says to  (14:15):
displacement would be nice
DAZ_chris says to  (14:16):
They is alot that we'd like to still through into it.
Sarissi says to  (14:16):
64 bit for all of Daz's apps would be really nice.
DAZ_chris says to  (14:16):
We would like that also.
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:16):
Bryce literally has one of the strongest reputations of all apps.
DAZ_chris says to  (14:17):
We would need demand to drive that one. (Flak note - this is addressing 64bit... I think)
Flak says (14:17):
what does the "internal PM" bit mean? (sorry 7am here - brain a bit asleep)
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:17):
It just needs to have some more development (as you know)
DAZ_chris says to  (14:17):
Product manager.
Digital I says to  (14:17):
..but it certainly would be nice to carry some of the nicer aspects of DS (displacement, for example) over into Bryce...
DAZ_Dan says to  (14:18):
I agree that Bryce definitely needs some serious love and we may need to reach out to the community to do that.
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DAZ_Dan says to  (14:19):
We have hired on a lot of software developers over the past year. We have gone from a couple of engineers to about 15 between internal and external developers.

 

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