On the Mac, clicking on the 'About' information displays it as Bryce 6. This can enable some very unreal, but artistic effects.īryce 7 Pro also has a particle system, slightly limited in that the emitter is a restricted to a sphere, but you can change the size, material and behaviour with respect to gravity of the particles. Daz 3D has also built on the image-based lighting (IBL) feature introduced in version 6, to add soft shadows as well as a 'light from the inside' setting which can map an HDRI image onto the interior of an object.
Specular map settings have also been introduced into Bryce, able to add some excellent lighting effects to the materials lab, while Sky Lab benefits from a host of improvements to HDR imaging. Visible lighting effects on the scene, such as soft shadows, look much the same but the rendering time is much reduced. These bring a lot more freedom to Bryce, making it possible for example, to replace the sun in a scene with a dome light set as a distant light source. The addition of new lights is also welcome a new distant light, parallel, cluster, dome and a series of 3D fill lights are instantly available from the Create toolbar in the main viewport. A Brush Editor allows you to mix different types of objects that you apply with the instancing brush. There are parameter sliders for size, density, distribution and divergence, as well as an eraser to remove individual instances. By selecting the Tree object from the drop down Source menu, we were able to apply a forest of trees to the terrain. Selecting this terrain object as the target for the instanced geometry and clicking on the 'I' icon brings up the Instancing Lab. In practice we found you need to have at least one other item in the scene with the object that you want to instance. The new Instancing Lab uses a method that has been around in 3D applications for some time now, referencing object geometry to make copies without increasing scene overheads. Able to design terrains, water and oceans, skies, clouds, fog, vegetation and architecture, along with strong animation and rendering tools, Bryce is a venerable 3D suite now being developed by Daz As to be expected, Bryce 7 Pro offers close integration with Daz Studio and thus access to the Daz library of digital characters and objects, but there’s a welcome new ability to import models in Google Sketchup format, as well as import and export COLLADA and FBX files.
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