Featuring perhaps the most innovative and distinct user interface of any 3D application, DAZ|Bryce 5 combines exceptional power with incredible ease of use. Bryce 5 is a fun, feature-packed 3D environmental modeling and animation package. The entire program is designed to allow new users to quickly draw and render stunning landscapes, scenes, and 3D artwork. You can literally create a world of your own within this unique 3D program.

Bryce 5 provides an ideal way to integrate modern 3D technology into your creative process. And you can bring in all your favorite DAZ figures and accessories with the help of simple to follow online tutorials. Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, DAZ|Bryce is the perfect companion software to your other favorite 3D figure applications like DAZ|Studio and Poser™.

You can also use Bryce artwork in conjunction with image editing programs to merge photos and 3D artwork together for an unlimited degree of creativity. Be sure to view the artwork hosted in the Bryce Gallery. There you’ll see many elements from Bryce, such as: terrains, skies, water, or even entire scenes used as part of the 3D artwork. Many of the images were created by rendering parts of a 3D scene and then merging them together using photographic elements and layers in Photoshop.


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 have been dramatically sped up. Render times will vary greatly, from an average of 30% faster, to some scenes that render over 150% faster without any image quality loss!

DAZ|Studio Character Plugin: Easily load, and edit any OBJ model using the new DAZ|Studio character lab. This plugin allows you to load in thousands of 3D figures, vehicles, wildlife and more while you work inside of Bryce. Launch this application to either import new content into your Bryce scene, or to edit pre-imported assets.
Any changes to the imported content are updated to your Bryce scene at the touch of a button, allowing you to continue your creative process without unnecessary interruption. Faster load times, increased stability, and more logical object grouping have been added as compared to the previous Turbo Import solution (available separately).

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.

Light Lab: Enjoy robust control over lighting direction, intensity, and tinting from one or more sources to ensure a more accurate production of real-world environments.

Terrain Editor: Enjoy greater visible detail due to increased resolution coupled with an improved default display style. Receive instantaneous feedback when editing terrains via Realtime Linking in the 3D Preview. Edit terrains more easily with an improved brush size and more visible Terrain Canvas Tool area. Improve accuracy when fine-tuning terrains with floating panels, fully scalable 2D and 3D image previews, and a time line for controlling the progression of animations.

Dozens of Presets: Explore a virtually infinite number of textures and landscapes with preset collections that include terrains, waters, skies, rocks, clouds and fog, metals, and more.

Texture Editor: Easily import, create and edit preset textures then save them as new textures for future use.

Tree Lab: Place realistic trees in your scenes, specifying details such as tree type, branch density, leaf or needle density, coloration and more.

Bryce Lighting 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.

Landscape Creation: Quickly and easily produce remarkably realistic landscapes, impressive fantasy worlds and other dynamic scenes.

Image-editing Tools: Import 2D images from a variety of formats, transform them into 3D objects, then incorporate them into your scenes.
Save valuable time with Metaballs technology that lets you create organic shapes without the need for high-polygon modeling.

Advance Rendering Options: Achieve new levels of realism in your scenes with Soft Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmission (frosted glass), True Ambient Lighting and Depth of Field. Plus, take advantage of optimizations designed to speed up the creation of architectural scenes.

Bryce 5.5