ANd ask ourselfs ...

WHY JUST KEEP WORKING WITH OLDER SOFTWARE ?

AND WHY TO WAIT SO MANY HOURS OR EVEN DAYS FOR A FREAKING RENDER TO DAM FINISH AT ALL !?

AND IF THAT HAPPENS !

Its like WHo is WOrking for Who There ?

You know !
I tell you people one thing that i think.

IF THAT RENDER DOESNT FINISH IN THE NEXT 2 or 4 or 8 NEXT HOURS ! AND YOU HAVE TO BE WAITING !

You Are Possibly Doing Something Very Wrong With your Artistic live 
Because ART is not waiting for a Software to render ...

Unless you are doing more art in one computer wille in the other it renders ...
Professional 3D Art Must be as Easy and intuitive as  a Oil Painting or a sculpture would be .

But most of all Because 

REal Art is done in REALTIME ...

If you dont have Instant Feedback in your art Like you would with a Pen and papper ...
You then are not doing art - You are killing yourself technically Artistically

And Today more than ever : Because we Freaking are in 2015 .

AND THIS DAYS ...

HERE NOW IN 2015 People do this kind of THINGS In REALTIME .









BUT LETS NOT TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT THE REALTIME ENGINES ...

BUT GIVE SOME FEW hIGHLIGHTS ..


THE very Best FREE Realtime Engines Are :

 www.unrealengine.com and www.unity3d.com ...

And dont mistake !

 Unreal Engine is Complex  ...
Its interface is a complete Cluster  ...

But Still alows you to do greath things in well REALTIME ...



TO WORK WITH A REALTIME RENDER YOU JUST NEED A GRAPHIC CARD !

AND NO ITS NOT THAT DIFICULT AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE 

Quite the contrary .. Working in REALTIME 3D is Easier than Working with Common 3d SOftwares ..


AND EXPECIALLY UNITY 3D

UNREALENGINE.COM is for Grown ups UNITY3D.COM is for kids .. 

And dont go for MY WORDS just ...

Here are just few Examples of what MANY DEVIANTS Are doing in UNITY and UNREAL



    

AND ITS QUITE INCREDIBLE ISNT ?

And guess what you dont have to waith At all to do and render Works like that 

In 3D realtime engines as BLENDER , UNITY , UNREAL ...

And yes Blender because BLENDER also have a 3D REALTIME Engine .. That is Evolving !






AND BLENDER IS CAPABLE OF WHAT WE ALL KNOW IF TAKING IT TO EXTREMES




But lets talk about Today OLDEST 3d Programs 

IN THIS CASE BRYCE / CARRARA ! 

LETS TALK ABOUT BRYCE ! WHY TO WORK WITH BRYCE JUST ?

Expecially if you have CARRARA that its its bigger Brother ... Why Tolerating all that Bryce is worst ...


SO if you are working Still with CARRARA or BRYCE ...

Please DOwnload this UNITY FREE program here That works in any Computer even tablets !

netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/0…

If you have a Medium Graphics Card

Go to unrealengine.com

Register and download the Engine ...

AND YOU WILL SEE TODAY WHAT THE 3D FUTURE IS ALL ABOUT

Get some Tuttorials in Youtube and if you are waiting Hundreds Hours to Render 3D Scenes ...

Think Twice About WHat you doing with your live !



When you can Integrate ALL 3D Aplications so well with BLENDER or ANY REALTIME 3D ENGINE ?

Making a Rainbow path within the best of all 3D FREE worlds Should be the goal in your 3D Living !

( ... kinda Litle diference betwen a common Bryce render here and the octane render above right ? ) 

Sometimes if we never try it we will never know !

And is just a Matter of Lack of Courage to Learn anew 3D application !
And then is just having the right video tutorials and wanting to know ..

Bryce is Sure a BLAST from the Past !

And there are Sure some Amazing BRYCE ARTISTS outhere ...

This is ... the continuation of 

A LITLE tALK ABOUT BRYCE AND TERRAGEM + BLENDER ...
Just pushing the Tread Over here to a better place ! All more Cozzy !

Be very welcome !

And here is ...

A MOSTLY AMAZING HYPER REALISTIC BRYCE RENDER !

 I REALLY THINK If you Want to Get Better 3D Results And be yourself a Graduated professional or a starter.
to learn BLENDER it is the first more seriously move you could ever do to your art..

BECAUSE BLENDER TODAY IS THE DEFAULT 3D SOFTWARE

So if you still Hanguing around With BRYCE for no Reason whatsoever but just to play ...

ITS OK ... ITS ALL RIGHT ! BUT LET ME ASK YOU ! WHAT A HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR ARTISTIC LIVE ?

Were do you want to reach just Working With Bryce ? Can i Humbly ask ? ...

Im sure Few people that work more serious or not with bryce ...

Reaaly few would be able to answer me ...

BUT LETS COMPARE BRYCE TO BLENDER IN A MOST FAIR WAY .

Bryce has amazing Features that Blender Doesnt have ... and SHould !
Blender has amazing Features That Bryce Should strive for ...

FOR ME Best thing could happen is that Bryce Developers should make BRYCE as a BLENDER PLUGIN ...

I would seriously even pay 100 or 200$ for Bryce Full features as a Plugin Inside Blender ... WOuld be a Dream for many people ...

So if Daz3D programmers Quitted from Bryce and Carrara to now just work in IRAY and Dazstudio and FOR FREE ...

DazStudio-IRAY 

www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-beta

DAZ3D PEOPLE They are just doing it Completely WRONG ... 

Because Many people would even pay up to 200$  ( that is "the older bryce price" 10 years ago ... )

If they would use Bryce and Carrara as a Plugin ... Both inside DazStudio & Iray and BLENDER Especially ...

BRYCE AND CARRARA AMAZING UNIQUE SOFTWARE QUALITIES ARE QUITE THE SAME
 BUT IN THE SAME WAY ARE BEING FORGOTTEN

Bryce was already long ago made of Modules and as a SImple Plugin of Photoshop in the KPT old days ..

So why not bring BRYCE to its Origins .. and use it as PLUGIN ...

And lets face the Fact that BLENDER STILL SUCKS In Enviroment Volumetrics ... 

Wile BRYCE / CARRARA / TERRAGEM / VUE They Just Still RULE and there is no other softwares Alike in Features

In Blender Volumetrics Skies and terrains WOuld reaaly beneficiate of BRYCE Easy ENviroment capabilities.
Even Bryce Unique materials and instance lab .... Inside blender would just rock the house !


But Those people .. that have the SOFWARE PATENTS IN HAND ... They dont care ..
They just dont think about it ... or no one tells them ...


And i do Comprehend People LOVE for BRYCE ...

Because BRYCE its quite a Unique Amazing Pieçe of software with 20 Years old ...

THAT SHOULD BE ALREADY IN PUBLIC DOMAIN AND OPEN SOURCE AS BLENDER

So that The Community of Programmers could MIX BOTH ...

BUT NO ... DAM DAZ3D DOESNT DO IT ... And instead

They prefer to Put the BRYCE Software for 10$ 

AND RELEASE ALL MIGHTY NVIDEA IRAY FOR FREE 

Now isnt that Freaking Ironic ....

Its ok its good for Nvidea IRAY to be free.

But Next Best Thing would be to RELEASE BRYCE AS OPEN SOURCE .

And OR Desintegrate it and Integrate it all its features in DazStudio As PLUGIN .

BRYCE IS A BLAST FROM THE PAST 

Even VUE cant do as fast Concepts as in Bryce ... Because bryce has that Easyness you cant see in no other software ...

The problem is when you goto render and you have to waith 8 to 80 hours ...

And if you Complain not having money or time ... 
Check your POWER BILL ...

Im Sure that instead leaving so many renders 150 hours rendering the latest year lol ...

With same Energy expended You already could buy a Geforçe 980 or a titan and you would be Flying with Blender GPU ...

AND BLENDER ... ITS A BLAST TO THE FUTURE

 ... Blender is not that complicated as it Looks ... You just need to understand how it works 
And if you do .. in just some minutes you will start doing things as this 



blenderartists.org/forum/showt…

THIS That quality TODAY you can reach in just few minutes just with blender ...

You just need to have a 8 Cores computer or a Medium Graphic Card.

NOW AMOUNT MANY THE MOST IMPORTANT IN A 3D ARTWORK IS
 
1)

The Vision or draw or reference be painting or photo
 the artist have in mind mixed before starting any 3d work at all ..

2)

The Assets Library the artist uses it .... 

And that Sometimes is alot ...




Lets quote here the amazing BRYCE Artist c-ramgfx

"Well how can I start.. I don't know if I've to produce a lot of effort with bryce, let me explain.

Since 2013, I have work hard on a simple concept : making some trees, shrubs, grass, vegetation library.

Now that I have got it, I just have to build my scene with some terrains
then cover them with Davids grass recipe and then come the time put some trees, shrubs, flowers here and there.

I know that blender is a thousand faster and better than Bryce and by the past,
I have allready try to work with another software (terragen).
I'm not afraid about learning a new renderer
But I have not that much time in my own life to learn something new for the moment.

Bryce is "obsolete" in some case
 but I've got the skill to produce a picture each day
(if I could work on it each day) but that's not my goal."


Now what can we learn here is that ...

To do a Good 3D Artwork be in whatever software
Even in the Most Dificult there is .

You need the concept Art first.

You need to know what you are doing
ANd were you are going to direct that art.

THEN YOU SERIOUSLY NEED A GOOD 3D LIBRARY .

Wich is something that Sometimes it can take you Many Years.

In this case 3 Years to Aglomerate some qualifying Trees Shrubs Flowers Grass Vegetations library.

AND THEN AFTER HAVE THAT LIBRARY ...

Its just to Put Your library Things Into Use 
And your Art Starts to become EASIER than ever .

So what we learn from here is that Even more important than THE SOFTWARE
Is the 3D LIBRARY you use .. and therefore the degree that you can use with that software or not.

MANY NEWBIES THEY JUST PICK IN BRYCE ...

And try to Scruble SOme terrains ...
They Put some primitives.. try to Make Procedural textures ...

Use Default Bryce Trees DOnt even Use Hdri ...

AND THEN THEY COMPLAIN BECAUSE BRYCE IS CRAP .

But the true there is that Their 3D Library is Crap or Non Existent ... Not Bryce reaaly.


And SO if you have All Xfrog Cds Plants and Evermotions Models
All your 3d ModelsVery well catalogued with images ... Hunt All types of 3d models even dazStuffs ...
Well you can do Renders in NO TIME that you would waste dozen hours trying do the same  ...

Not just in BRYCE but in VUE in MAX in MAYA In WHatever SOFTWARE ...

EVEN IN BLENDER ... AND EXPECIALLY IN BLENDER.

To WOrk Good WIth Blender Due the Procedural Nature of Blender ( same as Houdini ) 

YoU need to do your own All types of libraries ...

Procedural Skies Libraries, Procedural Materials Libraries.
Light Rigs Libraries. Terrain Libraries ...

And Talking about TERRAIN Libraries .

THE BEST WAY TO DO 3D TERRAIN LIBRARIES AS WELL HDRI SKIES LIBRARIES FOR BLENDER

Is to Do it first in BRYCE or TERRAGEM ...

Then Import Those Terrain and Skies From BRYCE and TERRAGEM INTO BLENDER .

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SO I THINK ... We All should USE BOTH . We SHould not BITCH of what is FREE or ALMOST .

AND Bryce and blender Can be AMAZING toguether .

I Actually use Blender with DAzstudio / 3Dsmax / Thea Render / octane render ... Zbrush ...

And BLENDER is a awesome finishing ! As Well Greatest Medium to Bridge all those !!

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Because she is so Adicted in trying to show the world on how much WITHOUT SPENDING MONEY you can do greath things ...

"Ho lord what can i do ... soo blender it is ... For the sake of all my sins ... "

( the above Renders they just look straight out of VRAY .. but they are BLENDER Cycles .. Its secoundary renderer ) 

( and blender today has many other rendererers most of them all iteractive ... were you can preview in secounds the results ) 


AND OK BUT THIS ARE FEW GOOD BLENDER ART EXCEPTIONS IN BAD MILLIONS ... 

And she even doesnt have time to watch tuttorials ...

CAN ALL WORK TOGUETHER PRETTY WELL !

And as this Masters are working in the worst conditions but still doing Greath 3D Arts ...

Wich is quite a WASTE of cores for BRYCE ... Unless you put 2 Bryce Instances Rendering Diferent parts at same time ...

ANd it is .. but Few Know how to use BLENDER to its Proper Extends ...
And then To Learn Blender is a Reaaly Slow Process ...

And Bryce .. YES it has Its qualities ..

UNIQUE QUalities.

I writed alot about bryce here : 

soulsshine.deviantart.com/jour…

Hell right now im remembering that the amazing  davidbrinnen  actually answered me there ..
And adviced us to Get MODO as Replacemnt of BRYCE ... 

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And as wille im at i will quote the Big BRYCE autority guy here : 

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And
Right now
If i had 2000$
To spend in software 
I could Agree totaly ..

YEAH IM ALSO A BIG OCTANE FAN ... 
And i always loved Schematic Interfaces .

BUT If we have Blender for free With Octane Plugin WHy to Pay for MODO ...
I guess only Modo 901 or 1001 Could tell us reaaly ...

I am actually waiting since That MUCH ENLIGHTENED comment for The Foundry Release the Dam MODO 901 ...  
So i could talk a litle bit more ABout MODO with 901 Data
ANd i know Modo 901 is now 40% faster ...
And its still not Unbiased as Cycles ?
But its already too late ...

My Partner just ERASED me and all my MODO INDIE ideas ... as you can see here ... 

By Brute Forcing-me into BLENDER Wile she not Giving up of the Dam BRYCE !!   )
And that is GirlPower For you ... JUST WITH BRYCE She is alot Better artist than i ever will be with Vrays and Theas ...
... So whatever she says is God saying Around here ... xD

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But i Think also SHE IS RIGHT in the end .... 

Well This is what  She said to me after i show her The All mighty Heavy David Brinnen coment ...

"HEAFY PRICE ? HOW MUCH ? One would have to Pay for a MODO + OCTANE RENDER Licences ? "

500$ for Octane + Modo Plugin ... + 1500$ For MODO itself ... I sayd ....
... it it it .. isnt that near 2000$ and the price of a 32 treated computer with a Nvidea titan ? ... 

"That is the Price of a Good Secound hand Car ... are you crazy !!"
"And that is the Replacemnt for the 10$ BRYCE ? You got to me ?? "

"No no no no ... Im sorry But i prefer to Learn blender ...
Im actually buying a 50$ book to learn it In German right now !" ... 

And this is my partner toughts ....

About my And David brinnen Proposal that MODO would be the best BRYCE replacemnt ...

And i was Rendered Speechless ... And i was like ...



i WAS HOPPING WE COULD DO THIS KIND OF THINGS ... EASIER ...



BUT AGAIN CANT WE DO THE SAME JUST WITH BLENDER ?
 
And Ok She is Totaly right ... i cant Even Say she is wrong ... Modo 901 seams not be that much of big advance as Octane 3 either ...

AS BLENDER HAS IT ALL AND EVEN MORE ... WITH ITS PLUGINS AND GIANT COMMUNITY Pushing it Weekly ...

It would be better to spend 500$ in buying a Geforçe 980 card that ONE can render prety fast WitH Near Same Quality as Octane
All with BLENDER CYCLES for free ...

Instead of Paying for 1500$ For Octane + Modo / or + 1500$ for Vue Infinite or Extream ... Licences ....  

IF YOU EFFORT .. YOU CAN DO ALL THE SAME YOU DO WITH MODO + OCTANE + VUE

JUST WITH BLENDER WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME ...

Now that is Seriously a Undeniable Truth Today .

And Just SHows HOW POWERFULL the Merely Open SOurce BLENDER Become in this industry ...

Is also Why Blender Today is the Most DOnloaded 3D Aplication in Earth

With Half a Million People DOwnloading it Monthly ? 

www.blendernation.com/2015/04/…

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And in the end we keep Up working with BRYCE + BLENDER as she wants it ....   

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BUT THEN AGAIN BRYCE ... THAT SUN OF A BITCH SLOW PROGRAM !!! ..... -.- 

Modo and Octane As David Brinned Itself Sugested would be Sooo much better to work with .... But hey we would have to pay 2000 grans ...




And yes of course with A HELL LOT of ARTISTIC work BRYCE + BLENDER Toguether can do everything ... Even better than others ...
Well its the ARTISTIC tecnicals and Visions that DO the Artwork ...
Not the Program ....

But how much time like WEEKS you need to do SOmethinG decent out of Bryce ...
To Then Just Have to SPend 3 entire days render ...

And then If that Render has something bad that you have to REDO what do you do ?

Spend more 3 days .. and its like .... Reaaly ?

BUT AT THE END THE THING IS ! INSTEAD OF WASTING SO MUCH TIME ....
Trying to Make BRYCE do what Others Programs as Vue or terragem do better Just to show "bryce can also do it" ...
And yes we can use POSTWORK in bryce ...

AND YOU CAN DO ALOT THINGS ...

Useless things within Bryce !




BUt .... Instead of wasting time .... WIth what Bryce DOesnt do good at all ...




You can like Hundreds ... Better faster things With reaaly greath workflows in faster time ?

Why not USE BRYCE for what is Best ....

FAST ENVIROMENT RENDERS ...

Its just like ...

Bryce is a Program of just 10$ that does incredible landscapes and backdrops fast and easy ...
Were we could and should EXPORT Bryce 360º Renders as HDRI



Then SURE we can Use Bryce Fast Many Possibilities for Enviroment Backdrops As HDRIS  light probes ... That you can use in Blender.




And you can also export terrains  From Bryce




To render WITH The HiperRealistic Blender Cycles ...







Of course we can also Mix it with Online Topography Sets ...


Then ... If you are not satisfied ...
YOU CAN GO Even go Further and Import those Terrains in FREE TERRAGEM ...



That you can load Height maps or objects .. displace them into gigantic landscapes ...
Even Then Export those Gigantic Displaced 3D Procedural Terrains
WIth the Micro Exporter planetside.co.uk/wiki/index.ph…





That actually exports terrain Geometry with Distance from the camera Lods ...
and that means terrains near camera are more detailed wille Gigantic world level landscapes
more distant from camera less polygons have just the needed that you setup ...



Wich makes terragem a amazing Program to make and improve BRYCE Landscapes to import in BLENDER
and Blender the ULTIMATE scatter Ecosystem, and hiper Realistic Renderer ... With Cycles ... 
And if you dont want to waste 4 hours leaving blender rendering a 4000px hyperrealistic image ...
 ...Use blender internal ... and those 4 hours just take 4 minutes ...
THIS WAY ...




USING BRYCE and or TERRAGEN for Sky Enviroment Terrains Shaders ...
that you bake to 360º HDRI terrain height and export ...

USING BLENDER For Scene Assembling Ecosystems and All Else ..
USING TERRAGEM For Large Landscape terrains inside blender with Fbx Camera Conection in both ...


THERE IS ALOT ONE CAN DO WITH THE COMBINATION OF FREE TERRAGEN OR BRYCE WITH BLENDER 




USING BLENDER AGAIN For Finishing with Royal Hyperrealistic touch ... And even Post processing inside blender ...
CAuse yes .. Blender can be MODO + NUKE Toguether as well .... And Zbrush and Mari ...




Blender is quite UNIVERSAL ... And seriously much better than Modo at this point frankly ...

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And Please DONT BLAME ME for Having this wiked Workflows Ideas Betwen 3 Free programs ...

 My partner  ... She is the Revolutionary that Started it all ...

Im just the crazy Tecnician Scientist that is Trying making just out of Blender Things as good or better than vue ...
 
THIS IS ONE OF MY LAST WORKS IN BLENDER ... I TRIED TO EMULATE A VUE XSTREAM LIKE LOOK ...

And guess what BLENDER alone worked it out even better and faster than Vue Xstream Would .. certainly

 
 
AND THAT IS THE POWER OF  BLENDER CYCLES ...

A Unbiased engine Even Ahead of All mighty Octane Render 3 ...
That only in the next release will have a Volumetrics 

THIS NEXT IMAGE HERE AS WELL
 
My production Partner
 
Introduced me a Chalenge the other day ...

For me To do a convincing JADE material ... One of the Most Dificult 3D materials types ...
 
And this was the 20 Minuts on 8 cores RESULT ...





And the Result you see Above not even in Vue or Bryce or Vray or Final render in Max or Maya .... Would be easy at all !

IN BLENDER CYCLES You have the NODEs Flexibility to do in Blender Absolutely all kinds of materials ...

And this is just one simple example of UNBEATABLE CYCLES Power as Renderer ,
No other unbiased renderer has the deep of The BLENDER Nodebased and OSL Coded Materials workflow ...



You can find the Making offs Workflow Previews here :

Part 1 ( Previews )                                                                                                          

THE JADDED TIKI - WORKFLOWS - PART 1

 
If you find Yourself Interested in the Making offs 
BELLOW ALL WORKFLOWS FOR THE JADDED TIKI PROJECT !
This Massive work has 2 Parts !
Part 1 ( this one )                                                                                                          

                                                                          THE JADDED TIKI - WORKFLOWS - PART 2

 
And we continue With the Works in Progress for the Jaded Materials !
BELLOW ALL WORKFLOWS FOR THE JADDED TIKI PROJECT !
 
Part 1 ( Previews )                                                                                                          

                                                                             

                                                                                            Part 2 ( This one ) 

And Im just Pushing the Tip of the Iceberg ... About Blender In our production here   we are just Starting SCratching ....

But we will get there to Some cool Landscapes Very Inspired By those VUE & BRYCE & TERRAGEM Mega Masters Outhere ...
It will be our Next Goal for next Images to do Something With BRYCE/VUE Tecniques aplied IN BLENDER...

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But i think would not be just us trying ! 
EVERYONE SHOULD !

Again Wouldnt that be a Amazing Tuttorial Series for Mister davidbrinnen 
Exploring all the minimal posibilities of this crazy Integration betwen BRYCE TERRAGEM & FINALIZING IN BLENDER ...

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Today when i see mister David Brinnen tuttorials and AMAZING tecniques In the OBSOLETE Bryce i just ask myself WHY ! !!
If we could do better with CARRARA or  BLENDER .. WIth same tecniques also ...

BUT THERE IS NO ONE TEACHING THOSE !

And there is alot to be covered Landscape wise in Both carrara or Blender ...
In a Larger Degree Much more Than BRYCE certainly ...

FOR A FEW EXAMPLES ...

Blender has a Amazing Tree generator ...





Blender has a Cool Terrain Generator that you can import Height maps from Bryce and Terragen ...





Even making Gigantic World if one wants !





Blender has Displacemnt procedurals as VUE





Blender has the same procedurals than bryce ... 





Even the Convexity tricks and cavity for the terrains we can also have it ...





Blender is Cool for Giant to Macro Landscaping Procedural of all tipes





Even cool things that we would do in Bryce with Heightmaps ...

Like Scify Cities ...



Well ..

And much much more ....








Even dificult things as Particles Fluids Simulations Waterfalls ... That in other programs need plugins ...





Blender just Has it all !

Its Just like IN BRYCE EVERYTHING SEAMS Alot Easier and Faster ... But Ends not in the end ..

Wile BLENDER is the total opposite ... Everything there seams UBBER massively Complicated ... But ends super easy and faster ...
Seriously BRYCE and BLENDER is totaly 2 Worlds APART ....
But im Positivly sure they can be Mixed In amazing ways ....

Alowing us to have all the power of BRYCE and TERRAGEM inside BLENDER ....

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PEOPLE JUST NEED TO BE TEACHED HOW TO ...
And i Would like here to Chalenge YOU And Everyone To Try it
and People like DAVID BRINNEN and GEEKATPLAY.com Guys To Study it and make a Brand new Series of Tuttorials...
ON INTEGRATING : BRYCE TERRAGEM & BLENDER.

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And dont worry im not asking "You guys and girls" to do what i think is right ...
I Will be surely trying it around here ....

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And if there are so many Integration Betwen BRYCE and CARRARA ...




WHY PEOPLE JUST NOT INTEGRATE MORE AND BETTER BRYCE & TERRAGEM WITH BLENDER ?


Just Because BRYCE PEOPLE are Afraid of BLENDER ?

And BLENDER PEOPLE think Bryce is Useless ?

Terragem People Love Blender ...
But what they can do in Terragem
They never try to port to blender less than with Post process or bad compositing ...

...

Well if that is There are SOme Barriers that must be BROKEN by us the 3d Landscape sCientists ...

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BUT THEN AGAIN THAT IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM ...

The 3D SCientists are not Doing Their WOrk PROPERLY with FREE 3D TOOLS FOR LANDSCAPING ...

As There are FEW TO NONE FREE LANDSCAPE APLICATIONS That make Use of Latest Realtime Unbiased Rendering TeCnologies.

TERRAGEM IS FREE SURE !

BUT IT DOESNT COMPARE TO A UNBIASED ENGINE LIKE BLENDER CYCLES REALISM OR SPEED ...

And that is something that we need ... From 3D SCientists ...

THAT INSTEAD THEY JUST LET DIE THEIR DEVELOPMENTS

WOuld be Ubber important !

That SOmeone could Bring TO UNBIASED ENGINES .. MOJOWORLD !

 

With all its procedural volumetric PLANET SIZE Features .



MOJO WORLD back at 1999 WAS THE GOD FATHER of all 3D SOftwares ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoWorl…

Made by KEN MUSGRAVE The Person that Invented the ALGORITMS that Invited BRYCE 

www.kenmusgrave.com/about.html


And still today that Invention is Revolutionary and no other Alike ! But ABANDONED ...

SO why not Bring it MOJOWORLD... BACK TO THE FUTURE !?





TERRAGEM, VUE , BRYCE, CARRARA

Features and Interfaces As They are - SHOULD BE Aplied Inside BLENDER 

And this In a Perfect world Should be a TASK that DAZ3D Could Seriously DO

They SHould Divide BRYCE and CARRARA Features in Litle Plugins

That Could integrate WIth Other APlications as

DAZSTUDIO with IRAY and BLENDER CYCLES ...
And For example CARRARA Is a good Improvment to bryce  ...

ANd why i am saying this ... Well Carrara is the Evolution of BRYCE + RayDream STudio ...
( Carrara Evolution was Developed as a Bryce Improvment By the Same Programers Team That Bryce METACREATIONS ... )

Thats why CARRARA Interface Still today looks like BRYCE ...

Because METACRIATIONS they putted BRYCE CODE and INTERFACE Into Carrara That once was Called Ray Dream ...

But They BRYCE Guys just didnt had the Tallons to Develop Carrara .. Or bRYCE ..

And Then Bryce was SOld to Corel .. and Carrara To Eovia and to daz ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_…

But with time And Codes Forgoten and Programers Efforts Scatered


 People Just Forgot about HOW AMAZING is 
on Landscaping Methods and interface BOTH Carrara and BRYCE.






WELL BRYCE & CARRARA are BROTHERS

Absolutely all Features of BRYCE are in CARRARA ... 
As they Are Made out of a Same Ancient Code And BOTH should be Made as PLUGINS in other Aplications ...

Even Just Putting the IRAY or CYCLEs Standalone Engine Inside CARRARA or BRYCE WOuld be SOmething out of this world greath ....
And Untill THEN .... ho well ... The Only Better REalistic Choiçe /  For someone that Dont want to Pay Anything ....


IF YOU WANT A BETTER AND EVOLVED BRYCE ? 

Well there is Carrara ... that is 64 Bits Same Methodology as bryce ... and AS SLOW ... ANd you have to pay for it ! 150$ !

But Has more features than Bryce Its Faster And its a TRUE 3D Studio ...

With all Features you would expect of  a 3D Studio Including DYnamics ...



It has the full support of DazStudio ...



But CARRARA DOesnt have THAT CHARM And Padded Cell Simplicity Interface as BRYCE Has ...

Well no other 3D program is SIMPLE  and straightforward features as BRYCE ...

NOT EVEN BLENDER HAS SAME SIMPLICITY POWER AS BRYCE

And Much Less Terragem ... thats is quite a Mess ...

Comparing to VUE Expecially ...




BUT IF YOU DONT WANT TO WASTE 1000$ to HAVE VUE ...
WIch is the Best Landscape Dedicated software there is ...

WHAT TO DO THEN ?

ANd the only Obvious SOlution is the UBBER Deep complicated BLENDER ....

That By far is much more complicated and complete than VUE 

BLENDER can Have GREATH MATERIALS can be a REALTIME PREVIEW renderer ...

But Blender DOesnt have The Procedural Ecosystems Painting & scattering "Easyness" as Vue ..

And Blender also doesnt have the Perfect Realistic ATmospherics and Clouds Volumetrics ...



Unless you work alot for it in the Blender Procedurals Side Untill you find and do yourself Work Templates .. 


Because BASICALY You need to MODEL By Hand CLOUDS ... to Work them Right in Blender 




And this way Blender Clouds they can even look better THAN VUE itself ....


And what people dont know ....

Is that Blender Has so many Ways of doing things ...

For example BLENDER HAS A CLOUD GENERATOR ... as Good as Identical to VUE ...



And you can mix its results with the Hiper Realistic Renderer By Render passes in Blender Compositor ...


OR you can also Generate complete Hyper Realistic UNBIASED Real Clouds ... Using particles systems and Fluids Generators ...




And this is just one Aspect of a Landscape .... 

We are just talking about Clouds and there are like 10 Diferent ways of doing it ! 

AND STILL IF YOU WANT BLENDER IS SO MUCH DIVERSE ...

That if you want to take even less time DOing things ...

You can Actually BLEND workflows 

Having Best of all worlds and MIX all the features of BRYCE + TERRAGEM + VUE in Blender .


And if you dont have Vue You can STill have BRYCE + TERRAGEM ... That you can interact with BLENDER .
And im sorry .. as im basicaly boasting this out of my 20 years of this field ... as i scratch my head ...

So WHY the heck to Waith 20 Hours 30 ... 3 days to do a SIngle Render ...

WHY to waste so much time in BRYCE .... 

If you can do it the same visions so much better and faster and alot more perfectly in BLENDER 




AND IF WE ARE SO MUCH ATACHED TO BRYCE RESULTS ...

WHY NOT USE IT BOTH TOGUETHER BRYCE AND BLENDER !?

ANd Just Take the Best of WHat Each one does ...

BUT ISNT THAT A BETTER CHOIÇE WITHOUT NEED TO PAY ANYTHING EXTRA ? 
Mix BRYCE ENviroments And All Amazing Exports Hdri and geometry and texture baking features ...
With TERRAGEM free version as kinda a "worldmachine on steroids" that you can Export ....
And Mix All those Features Results Imported INSIDE BLENDER ? 


To Make the Ultimate VUEXSTREAM + MODO + OCTANE Combination ... and have SAME results just ....




With Just BRYCE + FREE TERRAGEM + BLENDER + CYCLES + LUXRENDER + YAFARAY But all for free or just 10$ for bryce ?
AND I DONT KNOW ... After 5 months Im StilL Experimenting ...
And being forçed by  my partner to think like that ... 
hahaha...  





But What im seying is that  with Today BLENDER FEATURES ...
Is More Possible than Ever to make BLENDER a Cross Platform were you can Integrate All other aplications with it ...

AND ITS FREE . WHY NOT WASTE SOME WEEKS JUST TRYING TO LEARN IT ....

Instead of Wasting weeks just to render 1 image ?

If you have THE ARTIST VISION It DOesnt Matter The SOftware !

SO TRY TO MIX THEM ALL IN THE MOST UNIVERSAL BETTER PLATFORM.

And that Better Platform ... Today is Blender that is there Available For free for us all !

AND I DO ADVICE EVERYONE START WITH BRYCE !

THEN GO AHEAD AND PICK IN CARRARA

THEN ADVENTURE TO BLENDER !

Is the Optimal path for a Full 3D Learning experience



But one thing is SURE

IF YOU CAN DO THIS COMPLETELY AMAZING ARTS IN BRYCE ! FIRST !

You can Sure THEN do all this  ... Alot more easier in blender than you could ever think !

And its all about your Work TEMPLATES You need to prepare first.

After that you will start doing things in No time !

BUT HEY MY DEEPEST CONGRATULATIONS ...TO ALL THOSE AMAZING BRYCE ARTISTS OUTHERE !

xmas-kitty | slepalex | davidbrinnen | c-ramgfx 
| | |  

In Deviantart Are the 4 Greathest BRYCE MASTERS of all time you should be Folowing and try to learn everything you could in them ..

ANd they are all actually very amazing Open minded People Revealing all and every tricks on what they do ..

And what they do is just Icredible for the very most ancient and dificult pieçe of software There is.





And i you ask-me I always would reaaly advice everyone to start with BRYCE First ...

Because if one can do Greath things with Bryce 
SUre can do greath things in any other 3d aplication ..

THERE IS NO ONE THAT CAN DO THINGS IN BRYCE LIKE THIS 4 GREATH BRYCE MASTERS DO !
And Bryce can be the Hardest 3d Aplication if you want realism...

So DOing a Realistic Artwork in bryce is like The Ultimate SKill !!
Wich just says how good the artist reaaly is .

But we always can better .
With the SHared experience and vision of eachothers ..

Thats all about the amazingness in SHaring and trying .
We do it because it bringS constantly more technical and artistic inspiration









SPECIAL THANKS TO 

c-ramgfx


And 

slepalex


FOR THE AMAZING HIPER REALISTIC BRYCE ARTWORKS
Their Gallery are a True Example of a ARTIST Should be !

This Guys have been pushing eachother continuously ...
To reach another level in the old BRYCE and 

To Achieve such Degree of Hiper Realism
 in such old program as bryce ... is quite a amazing achievement !

THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING OF SUCH GREAT INSPIRATION FOR US ...
And for sharing your amazing Gallery for our Reference Delights !

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And Of course xmas-kitty for beying the Very Best and most lovely Bryce Artworker there is.


We have alot to learn with those Greath 3D ART MASTERS .

That do in Bryce such Unbelieveable things !

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BUT NOW ITS TIME FOR EVERYONE TO MERGE ALL THERE IS FREE

And REach another level of Communitary Artistic Evolution !





BECAUSE TODAY AT 2015

There is no excuses for slower render times and Inferior Quality in your Art.

Your Effort and your mind Can Do it .

As Softwares are better than ever.
And even the bests
 As UNREAL /  DAZSTUDIO / BLENDER / UNITY are FREE !

SO ITS THE TIME FOR YOU - AS A 3D ARTIST TO WAKE UP - RISE AND SHINE

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Best Regards People ! Have some Amazing Artistic Weeks there !

 



Ruben Ismael
SOULSSHINE Studio