Bryce Features

Bryce 4 is dedicated to designing, rendering and animating breathtaking natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D sculptures.

Bryce is a perfect application for both beginners and advanced users because it comes loaded with libraries of presets to use in your own work. As you become more proficient, Bryce allows you to easily create your own surface materials, skies and more--Bryce actually grows with you as you need!

Start by building your scene using wireframe primitives or meshes, then assign different realistic textures to the wireframes and render the scene when you are finished (or render as you go to see how things will look). Then use the animation controls to create breathtaking movies.

What's new in Bryce 4

Textured terrain export through real-time multi-resolution Export Lab

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• Converts Bryce terrains into mesh objects for export in all popular 3D file formats
• Texture maps at any resolution can be generated and saved in a variety of image formats
• Terrain mesh density is fully user adjustable
• Real-time, textured preview provides instant visual feedback

Interactive movie previewing system

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• Quickly generate thumbnail previews of your animations
• Preview animations directly within Bryce
• Navigate through your animation using a storyboard-style interface

Extensive collection of importers/exporters for increased interaction with the 3D community

Importers:

• TrueSpace (.COB)
  
• VideoScape (.VSA)
  
• LightWave (.LWO)/(.LWS)
  
• VRML1 (.WRL)
  
• Heightfield (.HF)
  
• USGS DEM (.DEM)
  
• USGS SDTS (.DDF)
  
• Portable Greyscale Map (.PGM)
• DXF importer now imports standard AutoCAD colors
• 3D Studio importer supports materials more thoroughly
• OBJ importer now supports materials through associated MTL files
• 3DMF importer now supports assigned material properties

New object exporters (fully textured terrains only):

• RayDream Studio (.RDS)
• USGS DEM (.DEM)
• AutoCAD (.DXF)
• Portable Greyscale Map (.PGM)
• VRML1 (.WRL)
• Heightfield (.HF)
• Infini-D 4.0 (.ID4)
• LightWave (.LWO)/(.LWS)
• Wavefront (.OBJ)

Movie exporters:

• QuickTime (.MOV) (NEW for Windows)
• QuickTime VR Panorama (.MOV)
• RealMovie (.RM)

Create stunning skies with the tools available in the Sky Lab

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• Control all sky attributes using the cool, new Sky Lab room
• Preview skies quickly with the built-in preview screen
• Control animatable properties with the easily accessible timeline controls
• Take hold of the advanced volume sky controls for incredible realism
• New sky features include spherical clouds and sun-cloud shading effects

Hundreds of megabytes of content to explore

Scene files, models, materials, texture libraries, sky presets, objects to import, animation paths, movies and lots more!

Use Bryce to build content for the World Wide Web using a variety of authoring tools

• Create HTML image map pages with embedded object links.
  
• Create RealMovie animations for streaming movie output.
  
• Create QuickTime VR movies for your web page.
  
• Chat with other Bryce users through BryceTalk.
  
• Customizable web links for accessing resources via the internet.
  
• Export textured terrains as MetaStream files.