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I am excited about it, and you can get the pro version for cheap. There is also a ple version for free.

Yep, got mine for less than 40 bucks with the PC membership or whatever that thing is called.

On the positive side is the pretty low asking price and update price. Also on the positive side is that thing drives the competition !
Quite frankly I like daz studio product most of all from daz since I can export pretty well with collada from there including morphs.
What i dislike about it is the material editor it dates back to when both Poser and Bryce were together under Kai Krause.
I simply dont like it ! It has not become easier and is pretty gimmicky. I also dislike that same as workspace side from Truespace it doesnt
have a stack view. If youve got hundreds of elements in a scene and that can happen pretty fast you loose the oversight of things.
The import of daz studio content and animation is very cool though.
Peter

interesting feature list... http://www.daz3d.com/i/software/bryce7/comparison?_m=d"

and only $6 for upgrade from Bryce6!!!

will think about upgrading to 7 Pro later, lots of extra features in 7 Pro that is not in normal 7... especially the new Instancing Lab that is only in Pro...

No brainer for me, just upgraded from 6.3 for £4.49. Worth it for the tree export alone especially as objects can be exported into .cob format. Saves me loads of time getting trees etc. for my scene. Apparently there is a 'hidden' particle simulator in there as well!!

There is a lot of very nice new features that is only in the 7 Pro version upgrade for only $29(from 6)/$55(from 7):

Distant Lights
True Parallels
Light Domes
3D Fill Lights
True Ambience Optimization
Influence (Include/Exclude)
Light from Inside
Cast Shadows - Softness
Specular Map
Background DOF
Use Sky and Sky Dome
HDRI Transparency
Export Image
HDRI Tone-map
Particle Emitter
DAZ Studio Bridge - Content Transfer
Displacement Maps
True Ambience
Painter:
Density
Divergence Angle
Distribution
Randomize
Scale
Rotation
Proportion
Brush Editor:
Scale
Rotation
Random Seed
Proportion
COLLADA Meshes
FBX Meshes NEW
Import Sketch-up models
Import Spore Models

Yeah you can't beat Bryce for its price. It does have some nice features. I could upgrade, but my version 6 is an upgrade, and to be honest I am tired of having to load all the cd's. So I am gonna drop 50 and just get the full pro version.

Bryce is well worth what daz is asking. Vue may be at the top of the heap right now but it was not always the case. Bryce used to be number one. Who knows with enough effort from daz it could make a good fight.

Yep, well worth the cheap bucks they are asking for Bryce. It makes an excellent companion application.

It is so COB format compliant, that I can import it into Carrara as a COB file format(see quick render from Carrara).

Terrains and plants both, export just fine with textures, may have to do them separately for best effects though.

A plus, is that because Bryce can make some excellent atmospherics, you can export the background as a - er well background and it also exports HDR files which is quite handy.

Of course, I still have no disciplined art style and there is just no accounting for my tastes in assembling an image.