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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163086454
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: BRY50PCMUGENG0
Platform: Mac, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: July 18, 2001
Studio: Corel
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
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. --Mike Caputo
Amazon.com Product Description:
Bryce 5.0 lets you create realistic 3-D landscapes and animations.Striking an optimum balance between power and ease of use, Bryce is anideal way to integrate 3-D technology into your creative process.Smooth Network Rendering saves time by letting you render images onmultiple computers. A new Light Lab gives you robust control over lightingdirection, and the new Tree Lab ensures a more accurate depiction ofreal-world environments.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
As an artist who has used Bryce 3D and upgraded to Bryce 4, I was satisfied with the product's ability to render realistic worlds and 3D special effects, even before I upgraded to Bryce 5. But for all the beauty I have been able to create with this affordable yet powerful software, there has been one increasingly prominent sour-note that may pretty much kill-joy everything else I liked.
I am currently rendering a sixteen-second animation using Bryce 5 on a WindowsME PC. The animation ... Read More
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When I purchased Bryce 5, the first 3d graphics and animation program I ever used, it was wonderful. I had no problem creating my own world. Bryce 5 is very easy to use and, once you learn more about how to use it, you can create life-like scenes and animations. About the render time: it only takes a long time if you have complicated scenes with many polygons, reflections, objects that have high refraction, and gasses. Other than that, it's been fast for me. Bryce 5 has only crashed twice in the seven ... Read More
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I have Bryce 4 which I'm running on a 600MHz cpu with 128RAM and I recently got a chance to play with B5 on a 1.8 GHz machine with 512RAM. Incredibly, the new version on hardware with 3x the oomph of my own system was SLOWER to render!!...and boys 'n girls, Bryce's slow rendering engine is already the ickiest, least acceptable part of the package. Okay, so you can supposedly distribute the rendering chores over multiple computers in a network now but y'know, I only have the one machine and it's the same ... Read More
Rating:  -
As a user of Bryce 3D and Bryce 4, and very satisfied with them, I'm very disappointed that Corel apparently felt they had to rush this release out before they debugged it. On 3D graphics discussion boards across the internet, folks are saying they had to deinstall it.
There are several serious problems with this release. It renders extremely slow; at least twice as slow as Bryce 4. It hangs machines (I've had this experience with W2K machine with 512 memory), crashes machines, loses track of where files ... Read More
Rating: -
I bought this product to upgrade my exsiting version of Bryce 4. After many major headaches and constant calls to the manufacturer I still failed to get it to work. Save your money.
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