Whether you're designing for print, multimedia, video or the Web, Bryce provides you with the tools to literally create a world of your own. An ideal way to integrate 3D technology into your creative process, Bryce 5.5 will save you valuable time by bringing the power of creation to your hands and allowing you to magnify that across multiple computers. Whether you are a professional designer, or a 3D graphics enthusiast, Bryce 5.5 will help bring your ideas to life with exceptional power and ease of use.
The Light Lab gives you robust control over lighting on objects and landscapes. Control the direction, intensity, and tinting from one or more sources to ensure a more accurate depiction of real-world environments. When you want to create and incorporate highly realistic tress into your landscape, the Tree Lab will give you the control you need by allowing you to grow real-world vegetation to your own specifications. Determine the tree type, branch density, leaf or needle density, and coloration. You can even generate tree roots for greater detail.
Features :
Dramatic Render Speed Increase
Now you can render your favorites scenes over 30% faster on average. The already powerful Bryce render engine has been greatly optimized to improve the efficiency of certain render time processes. As a result of this optimization, certain scene attributes and hardware configurations are now much more efficient. Scenes saved out of Bryce 5.5 render faster than those saved from earlier versions. CPU usage has also been refined so that now when you minimize Bryce 5.5 to the background, the percentage load on your systems CPU drops to allow other programs to run without major performance hits (to achieve the fastest render times, do not minimize Bryce to the background). In the end, this optimization means that overall workflow is faster and that render times will vary greatly, from an average of 30% faster, to some scenes that render over 150% faster. And there's no image quality loss!
Bryce Lightning 2.0
This new version of the network render application, Bryce Lightning, utilizes advanced image compression for improved rendering over either a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN).
An easy to use, stand-alone application, this can be installed on as many machines as you like without the need to purchase additional licenses. With greater stability and a more compact client interface providing detailed feedback, rendering Bryce scenes on multiple systems is easier than ever before.
Enhanced OpenGL Support
Bryce 5.5 adds the ability to see, in real-time, the texture maps applied to objects in your scene. By using optimized versions of the full resolution textures, you can pan, zoom, and rotate your workspace while seeing a full color preview of the objects as you work, even with ground and water planes. Version 5.5 has OpenGL support for the following display styles: texture shaded, wireframe, lit wireframe, hidden line, wire shaded, smooth shaded, wire textured shaded.
