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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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