Bryce 5 software for free
Available until September 6, 2006....
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 by Corky_O | Discussion: WinCustomize News
For those of you who want to play around with the 3D scene rendering program known as "Bryce", it is available for a short time as a free download from Download.com. Use the link below.
I recommend this for anyone who wants to see what the 3D rendering softwares are like. It is a very fun program to play around with.
Note - there is quite a bit of information and tutorials available for this version at the DAZ site WWW Link
DAZ has also indicated that the new Bryce 6 will only be available to owners of Bryce 5 and 5.5, so this would seem to be a great opportunity for those interested.
Have fun!
I recommend this for anyone who wants to see what the 3D rendering softwares are like. It is a very fun program to play around with.
Note - there is quite a bit of information and tutorials available for this version at the DAZ site WWW Link
DAZ has also indicated that the new Bryce 6 will only be available to owners of Bryce 5 and 5.5, so this would seem to be a great opportunity for those interested.
Have fun!
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werewolf
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:32 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:32 PM
yes indeed. Thanks for letting us know about this. Now...bring on the glass dolphins jumping through water balls over the glass tables LOL
Skinhit
Reply #4 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:14 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:14 AM
be on the lookout for my Brittany Spears/ Dolphin Wall Coming soon!!!!!!! 
cerendir
Reply #5 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:47 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:47 AM
Thanks for the tip. Used to play around with this app many years ago and had a lot of fun.
Sea Hourse
Reply #6 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:50 AM
Reply #6 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:50 AM
I'm a sucker for anything free. After checking out the DAZ site I got the feeling that this is like a drug dealer offering someone their first taste of the product. I never knew this stuff even existed. At least now I know where many of the wallpapers I see come from.
The biggest surprise/shock was when I started browsing the other products and came across the "dolls". Is that the right word? It's like a mixture of Barbie for adults, the classic you'll-never-be-alone-again blow up dolls, fastasy roll playing and who knows what else. Faces, bodies, hair styles, clothing, positions, and so much more. You could spend a fortune on all the different packages. Maybe even end up in the back room at the police station if you over do it.
The biggest surprise/shock was when I started browsing the other products and came across the "dolls". Is that the right word? It's like a mixture of Barbie for adults, the classic you'll-never-be-alone-again blow up dolls, fastasy roll playing and who knows what else. Faces, bodies, hair styles, clothing, positions, and so much more. You could spend a fortune on all the different packages. Maybe even end up in the back room at the police station if you over do it.
PoSmedley
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:43 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:43 AM
I can finally make that wall of dolphins eating Brittany Spears. mwahahahah *gack hahaha
Island Dog
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:58 AM
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:58 AM
Thanks for the post. I have Bryce for my Mac, but not the PC.
Fairyy~
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:16 AM
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:16 AM
While im not a big fan of bryce - I do like to play with anything free. So thanks Corky for the link up. Now- it took me 1h 45 m to download the zip. After unzipping - it said " you must be online to register" So I go back online. Open application agan- pop up box asked for registration number that they supplied. Type in email addy and registration number. Pop up box says: wrong number ( straight face here ) but you gave me the number , im looking at it now. I hit the little check mark again - wrong number - again wrong number - again wrong number. After 5 times im whisked away to a page asking me to log in to my account. OR if you do not have a DAZ account - make one. So I did. Then I waited for the email reply. I followed the directions and pasted the confirmation addy in my browser - once there I pasted the confirmation # they supplied.
I go back to DAZ site - i log in with my new shiny account....boom..im in...Welcome karen ..... here's your product seriel number ( write it down ) ok that wasnt so bad.
I go back to the bryce icon - click ....pop up box asking me for my name and the registration number again. ( straight face smiley ) ok, we just did that..ok we'll just go there again. I log in with account number and password. Welcome Karen....
Bryce splash screen is frozen with this box telling me I have the wrong registration number ( mind you - its the same number they keep giving me )
We do this 6 or 10 more times. Ok, Im close to tears or killing anyone in sight now.
Im talking to the pop up box " Ive done everything you asked - why are you toying with my emotions ?"
I go offline - I reboot. I try again.....application tried logging me back online but FF craps out. This time I put in my name and the 50 digit serial number they gave me at the site. A " new ' pop up box telling me that registration will not be complete until I go to site and download the " free " content that im entitled to.....
I JUST WANT TO SEE THE PROGRAM FIRST ..whimpering , i ask " is that too much to ask ?
Honest - I might even buy something - just let me see the program.
And like magic the splash screen changed and there it was......a strange , unfamilar looking program with things ive never heard of. things Ive never seen. Ok , this cant be that hard..i'll come back later...now wheres the " OFF " button to close it down..
I spent 15 minutes looking for the OFF/CLOSE button.
CTRL/ALT/DELETE is an odd way to shut down a program but what the heck it works.
This is not going to be a " walk in the park "
I go back to DAZ site - i log in with my new shiny account....boom..im in...Welcome karen ..... here's your product seriel number ( write it down ) ok that wasnt so bad.
I go back to the bryce icon - click ....pop up box asking me for my name and the registration number again. ( straight face smiley ) ok, we just did that..ok we'll just go there again. I log in with account number and password. Welcome Karen....
Bryce splash screen is frozen with this box telling me I have the wrong registration number ( mind you - its the same number they keep giving me )
We do this 6 or 10 more times. Ok, Im close to tears or killing anyone in sight now.
Im talking to the pop up box " Ive done everything you asked - why are you toying with my emotions ?"
I go offline - I reboot. I try again.....application tried logging me back online but FF craps out. This time I put in my name and the 50 digit serial number they gave me at the site. A " new ' pop up box telling me that registration will not be complete until I go to site and download the " free " content that im entitled to.....
I JUST WANT TO SEE THE PROGRAM FIRST ..whimpering , i ask " is that too much to ask ?
Honest - I might even buy something - just let me see the program.
And like magic the splash screen changed and there it was......a strange , unfamilar looking program with things ive never heard of. things Ive never seen. Ok , this cant be that hard..i'll come back later...now wheres the " OFF " button to close it down..
I spent 15 minutes looking for the OFF/CLOSE button.
CTRL/ALT/DELETE is an odd way to shut down a program but what the heck it works.
This is not going to be a " walk in the park "
Corky_O
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:07 AM
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:07 AM
Fairyy,
I should mention that the 'Titlebar' for Bryce is an "auto-hide" titlebar, which you can display by bumping the top edge of the screen with your cursor (it took me a couple of times to open and close the program using the taskbar button context menu before I accidentally bumped the top of my screen, and there it was; complete with the familiar menus and titlebar buttons).
For anyone else on dial-up, it is approximately 23.5 MB download (sorry, I paid about $100 for this version back when Corel had released it to DAZ, so I did not know there would be issues simply trying to install the thing).
I can say, after using the program for a couple of years, that it is a fun program to create scenes with. It is also a very helpful program to learn to work with 3D mesh objects, as well as apply textures and materials to said objects. I can't afford the better 3D programs, so this is the best value to me - especially now that it is free.
Note - I have not had any spyware / malware issues over the past 2 years downloading any material from DAZ site, so I do not hesitate to recommend them to people interested.
Island Dog
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:51 AM
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:51 AM
I also wanted to add on the Daz website there is a special to get the 5.5 upgrade for only $20.
Fairyy~
Reply #12 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:17 AM
Im just glad I finally got it installed. As for the issues - Im sure most of it was me being unfamilar with installing free stuff. They were a bit unclear as what they wanted so I wrote that misadventure just in case anyone else had the same problem. It could of been me was the problem - but I thankyou for giving me something to play with. And thanks for the info on the hidden tool bar. I think by then I was just worn out typing in my name so many times I just wasnt thinking anymore.
Reply #12 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:17 AM
| Note - I have not had any spyware / malware issues over the past 2 years downloading any material from DAZ site, so I do not hesitate to recommend them to people interested |
Im just glad I finally got it installed. As for the issues - Im sure most of it was me being unfamilar with installing free stuff. They were a bit unclear as what they wanted so I wrote that misadventure just in case anyone else had the same problem. It could of been me was the problem - but I thankyou for giving me something to play with. And thanks for the info on the hidden tool bar. I think by then I was just worn out typing in my name so many times I just wasnt thinking anymore.
Fairyy~
Reply #14 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:26 AM
That was worth the $20 bucks I paid you to say that ...
Reply #14 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:26 AM
| fairry you are not alone |
That was worth the $20 bucks I paid you to say that ...
seldomseen
Reply #15 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:37 AM
Reply #15 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:37 AM
So...
Free, huh? O.K...
[do I really want to do this? If Fairyy~, skinhit, and others had what Fairyy~ described happen to them, should I... ummm... Corky O posts some of the best, if not the best articles/tutes here, so...hmmm...23.5MB...got DSL...aargh!.. Yeah, what the heck. Here goes...]
Free, huh? O.K...
[do I really want to do this? If Fairyy~, skinhit, and others had what Fairyy~ described happen to them, should I... ummm... Corky O posts some of the best, if not the best articles/tutes here, so...hmmm...23.5MB...got DSL...aargh!.. Yeah, what the heck. Here goes...]
bobcato
Reply #16 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:43 AM
Reply #16 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:43 AM
I downloaded bryce 5 clicked on the exe file and a window says app failed to start because windows cannot locate the file b5axiom.dll which appears 3 lines above the exe can someone help please
Fairyy~
Reply #17 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:52 AM
That usually happens to me if I shut the download page first. I downloaded the Zip file to my desktop.
Yes......because if you read what I wrote it was just the lack of directions that was the problem.
Once you open the zip file and click on the exe - when it asks you for the " registration " number that they provide......when you get the message that its wrong - click on the Check mark until it takes you to the DAZ site. Once there - open the account - wait for confirmation email - confirm - once you get logged in they will give you a very long " SERIAL number " Go back and paste that in the box that you had pasted the registration number in. All I know is that made it work...all the extra I did only made me crazy. All of this should only take 10 minutes tops - not an hour and a half like it did me.
Reply #17 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:52 AM
| I downloaded bryce 5 clicked on the exe file and a window says app failed to start because windows cannot locate the file b5axiom.dll which appears 3 lines above the exe can someone help please |
That usually happens to me if I shut the download page first. I downloaded the Zip file to my desktop.
| So... Free, huh? O.K... [do I really want to do this? If Fairyy~, skinhit, and others had what Fairyy~ described happen to them, should I... ummm... Corky O posts some of the best, if not the best articles/tutes here, so...hmmm...23.5MB...got DSL...aargh!.. Yeah, what the heck. Here goes...] |
Yes......because if you read what I wrote it was just the lack of directions that was the problem.
Once you open the zip file and click on the exe - when it asks you for the " registration " number that they provide......when you get the message that its wrong - click on the Check mark until it takes you to the DAZ site. Once there - open the account - wait for confirmation email - confirm - once you get logged in they will give you a very long " SERIAL number " Go back and paste that in the box that you had pasted the registration number in. All I know is that made it work...all the extra I did only made me crazy. All of this should only take 10 minutes tops - not an hour and a half like it did me.
seldomseen
Reply #18 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:02 AM
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of...State Hospital's just 20 miles away & I don't feel like pushing a lawn mower for a few yrs...
Did the "desktop" thing, as usual...hit (rightclick)>"explore"...sniffed all the files I could...
...seems harmless enough...
...better go walk the dogs first...
Reply #18 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:02 AM
| all the extra I did only made me crazy |
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of...State Hospital's just 20 miles away & I don't feel like pushing a lawn mower for a few yrs...
Did the "desktop" thing, as usual...hit (rightclick)>"explore"...sniffed all the files I could...
...seems harmless enough...
...better go walk the dogs first...
Fairyy~
Reply #19 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:13 AM
Yeah - but I know a lot of people that paid at least $100 for this so its worth that bit of effort to get it free. Remember - I was doing this at 3am...
Reply #19 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:13 AM
| ...better go walk the dogs first... |
Yeah - but I know a lot of people that paid at least $100 for this so its worth that bit of effort to get it free. Remember - I was doing this at 3am...
seldomseen
Reply #20 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:35 AM
Reply #20 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:35 AM
Fairyy~, all kidding aside, this is really cool. Thanks for putting this out there, both you and Corky O, and all the people posting here. I know I paid a lot for CorelDraw some months ago and took it back to BestBuy before I broke the seal on the package as I needed the $$ at the time. This is a great opportunity to get into some graphic arts, something that I've wanted to try for a long time and that keeps getting postponed for one reason or another. Free?! You bet. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:12 PM
Thanks for the info Corky O!