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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | It's Awesome
I began using Bryce 5 at my school and soon bought a copy of my own because I love this program. I have spent endless nights creating new enviroments and such. | 5 | Today | Great power for creativity and low price, but annoying...
It sure is hard to beat having the power to create your own world in 3D for so little money. If you want to break into 3D graphics, this is a good place to start. However, if I had it do to over again, I would have bought a book on Bryce and read it before trying to learn by experience. That's the hard way. Also, there are some useability issues that annoy me continually. For example, there is a "select all" function key shortcut, but no "deselect all" function key. Why not? Photoshop does this. Another is that they give you the ability to create trees, and they pre-load about seventy different tree templates, but in the select pull-down the don't alphabetize the tree names, so even if you know what you're looking for you have to visually scan the entire list. Finally, and most annoying, once you get more than a few objects in your project then selecting an individual object becomes a real chore. There's a function that allowes one to select objects without clicking on them, which is rather handy. However, if you have for example ten different cubes in your project, and you want to select one of them, you click on the little cube selector on the bottom and you can choose to select from the list of cube objects. However, there's nothing on the screen to identify the cube objects, so I have to select all the cubes until I find the one I want. I find myself taking more time to select the objects I want to manipulate than I do actually manipulating the objects. Once I've spent a few hours with this product, I'm worn out, frusterated, and I don't want to use it again for several days. The bottom line is that this software is powerful, affordable, but not much fun to use once you get past "Wow, I just created a mountain with a mouse-click." | 3 | Today | Good Warez man
Where to start...Corel Bryce 5 is [great], I like 3D landscapes or what i call "starescapes". Here is another creative powerhouse, the texture, material, bump mapping is awesome. Watch out for the tree lab though, scale it to large, add to much foliage..watch your PC choke to death on it(mine does)! The animations you can make are really cool as well, from simple, like a screw driving in to a 2x4, to complex, like a full length cartoon, Bryce 5 can do it, you can model cars from terrain plains, make "monsters" out of primitives, the boolean operations can make some wicked stuff. I highly recommend it, and I challenge you to master it..just when you think you have...guess what, you find something new you can do..your imagination and computer are your only limits! As Eric Cartman would say "kick [butt]"...oh yeah you can model him as well ;) | 5 | Today | good beginning to intermedite program
This program is mostly intuitive and easy to use and learn. Great program to use when starting 3D graphics. I have used it (and bryce 4) for several years now, and my only complaint is my slow computer. Network rendering helps with that a lot though. THe problems would be: if you want complex lighting, this is a slow program; light does not act like it should (like off of mirrors and such); making a good texture adds a lot of render time; and this program ensures that it is the only thing you are using on your computer when it is running (locks taskbar in windows until you alt-tab to another program). Other than those things which I rarely have a problem with, I really like the program. | 4 | Today | A flawed favorite
I've been using Bryce since it was ported to Windows at version 2.0. My impressions were, this is great but I can spend a brief eternity waiting for it to render. As features were added and stability was addressed we get to Bryce 5 which does a nice job of creating interesting 3D images. Created to be a nature designer Bryce 5 offers import and texture mapping of several 3D objects. This is important as it's nice to sometimes add buildings, animals or humans to pictures you design. The modeling tools are designed for natural scene creation but it is easy to create indoor scenes, 2D style studies and combinations of styles. The renderer is excellent with many options for developing your world. Bryce's interface has always been unique but intuitive. Still you will want to read the bland manual. After market books are poor to acceptable - beware of books depending on you purchasing modeling packages or 3D clip art. The animation options are acceptable for a program in this price range but aren't really suitable for much more than short clips, say 5 to 30 seconds. Even with a very fast, highly tweaked computer Bryce can crawl when rendering. Some solutions are to keep your animations simple and turn off the antiailising, on smaller frame sizes it is harder to notice and saves between 20 to 60% of render time. If developing stills make your picture slightly larger and don't use antiailising, go into your favorite graphics editor and resize. You will get faster renders and usually no jagged edges. For fun and small projects Bryce is great. It is priced to be appealing to the home user that isn't necessarily an artist but will certainly learn as they compose and develop scenes and animations. Bryce 5 is getting old and lacking in many modern features including the inability to take advantage of modern processors. Still, it is fun to work with and can create some of the most realistic landscapes or abstracts you can imagine. Bryce 5 expects little from the user, even it's learning curve is simple, especially for a 3D program, and has impressive results. Because of it's slow renderer it is not really a good professional solution although pro quality landscaping tools for high quality 3D programs cost three times Bryce's price and demand a general purpose 3D program well into the high hundred dollar to multi-thousand dollar solution. If you were curious what you could do in the visual arts but currently don't have the talent you can realize many of your ideas in Bryce 5. Much of 3D graphics have more to do with physics than artistic skills. If you are good at visualizing Bryce 5 is an excellent and modest costing program. | 4 | Today | Excellent Buy.
This is a great program. Throughout all the modelling and landscaping I have done, I have faithfully turned to Bryce. It offers the basics shapes (spheres, cubes...), but its real power is in landscaping and scenary renders, offering you many filters and tools to creat unique and detailed mountains. The simple set-up of this program makes it easy for everyone to use. I have to agree that rendering takes longer than I would like, but you can always buy more RAM and increase your speed. I did switch over to Lightwave and 3dsmax for a while; however, I did not like the four screen set-up, and returned once again to Bryce for it's nifty camera switches. All and all, it's a wonderful program for those looking to pick up this hobby. | 5 | Today | Bryce 5 The Best ?
This program is the best it is so versitle you can't find a way it will not work! It can be used for movies, c++ programs, you know all those great games take Riven for example the land scape could of esasly be created with bryce and then for player controls just pop it into c++ and bam you 60.00 to 90.00 dolar game. war crft three brobaly did not use bryce for any thing but did use c++ for the whole game I should know I have hacked it many a time. The anmation in Bryce is easier then flash, you can import any image you want, and you can export any image or movie, the only problem wit this amazingly great promgram is I can't get it for windows XP but it does work for mac | 5 | Today | Creating worlds...
If you don't want to learn a high end 3D program like Lightwave or Studio Max which have high learning curves this is good for creating landscapes and building environments. However Bryce has a major downfall: if you are rendering an image that is to be used in a print publication or in a high resolution output, this program takes a huge amount of time to render a premium result. For online stuff I rendered images at low quality and it wasn't too bad, but when it came to images for newspaper print quality, each image took over a day to re-render at 1200 res. I couldn't do anything else while the render was taking place, like check my email because it would interupt the process. The plus side is, I do have Lightwave but because it is so difficult to learn, I find myself using Bryce anyways. If you own poser, you can import your models into the program as well as other program files like obj. and studio. You can break your import up into pieces once inside of Bryce to edit the materials for each part individually and group them back together, this is very useful. The interface is very intuitive and easy to learn. The manual with five is electronic, so I often find myself looking in the users guide that came with Bryce4. | 4 | Today | Good for what it is, but ... for what it could be
I've used Bryce 5 since it came out, and before it, Bryce 3. Bryce is indisputably a renderer which is the most powerful for how easy it is to use. Who wants to look at a gray, black and white interface and type in numbers, even if it looks a bit better? I don't, certainly, but what frustrates me about Bryce is ultamitely how unprofessional it is. It's the slowest renderer on the pro market, it has inummerable bugs, and the company that makes it has downright awful tech support for fixing said bugs. I've lost entire files when a bug screws up some crucial part of the file and I have to start over or am able to salvage part of it... As a speed comparison, I rendered a simple scene in Strata involving a few objects (without sky or transparency or lighting) and rendered the same scene in Bryce(Strata was on super-high quality, bryce was on standard) and it came out with the Strata image taking about 15 seconds to render as opposed to the Bryce image's 35 seconds. The preset and object features are nice, although you should have a feature to add your own libraries. I did this myself, although I had to erase some to make room for my own. Don't fool yourself into thinking this is a great renderer. It's very easy to use, but requires a very patient user (for all the bugs) and a very, very fast computer(since it renders so slowly). | 3 | Today | Great for the price
I really like Bryce 3d modeling software. It is easy to learn and is a powerful tool to use for your designs .I have been researching other 3d software out there and they are way more expensive than Bryce. If you know the tricks, you can create almost just as good as the more expensive 3d software. I am glad I bought it. | 5 | Today |
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