Just saw this at indiegamer boards: Bryce 5.5 – a powerful 3D creation tool – is now 100% free. Get it people – for future use if you don’t need it now.
Proceed here: Free Bryce 5.5 download
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I’m suspicious. The real question is why it’s free. Oh well, still, can’t hurt to give it a shot.
It looks like they just released Bryce 6.0. My guess is it is a marketing tool to help bring in new customers. Dynamix did this a couple of years ago by releasing Starseige Tribes and Tribes II as freeware in anticipation of their newer title in the series.
VPelnne: they released Bryce 6.0 (costs only $20 to upgrade by the way)
I use lightwave and Vue. Vue is so awesome and I want to update to 6.
I will have to look into Bryce. Ease of use is the most important feature even for a experienced artist like me.
As always, I still can’t find anything different between this and version 5.0 or version 4.
However, this version comes with Daz Studio, which looks like a pretty nice modeller.
Hey, free is always good. :-)
Cheers,
Hobo.
Hobo – as you said, free is always good ;)