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Features
- Powerful 3-D landscaping
and animation
- Powerful and easy
to use
- Smooth network rendering
- Robust control of
lighting
- Improved depiction
of real-world environments
Product
Description
There's nothing quite
like building your own world, and no application makes
it easier than Bryce. Now on its fifth major revision
and currently owned by Corel, Bryce has grown from a
fun application for building alien planets to a capable
rendering tool with advanced features.
Version 5 offers numerous new features and improvements.
To address the complaints of the slow rendering engine,
Bryce 5 has introduced network rendering. No longer
will one computer have to slave away all its own on
a 10-second scene. Rendering can be distributed across
as many systems as are available on your network. The
number of computer slaves available for use is only
limited by your own hardware, as Bryce's network rendering
license is unlimited. However, Bryce still doesn't take
advantage of computers with multiple CPUs--rendering
on a system with two 400 MHz processors takes the same
time as rendering on a system with one.
If you've got a green
thumb, Bryce 5 has the Tree Lab, one of the easiest
ways to grow a forest. Nearly everything about a tree
is variable: number of branches, number of leaves, kind
of trunk, kind of leaf, branch angle, amount of branching,
etc. There are presets for dozens of common and uncommon
trees, and the thumbnail preview screen lets you preview
in wire-frame or rendered views.
Once the forest is grown,
you might want to light it up using the tools from the
Light Lab. Based on the earlier version, the new Light
Lab has been redesigned to make it easier to build,
adjust, and customize lights and their attributes. You
can use color gradients as gels for lights, and control
other attributes like shadow ambiance, soft shadows,
blurry reflections, and true ambiance.
The new Light and Tree
Labs, as well as metaballs and network rendering, make
Bryce 5 a must-have application for old and new users
alike.
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