Corel Bryce 5.0

Corel Bryce 5.0 ... technology into your creative process. Always an integral element of Bryce, with Bryce 5, new presets help to speed up and simplify the creative process. Vast collections including terrains, waters, skies, rocks, clouds and fog enable users to quickly explore a virtually infinite number of textures and landscapes. With Network Rendering, you can save time by rendering images on multiple computers (clients) over a network, speeding up the rendering process to maximize productivity. This method of image rendering is based on render farming, in which a pool of computers works to render a single image. You can also maximize Bryce 5 Network Rendering using Tile Rendering. With Tile Rendering, you can render tiled portions of the same image over a network, so that several computers are rendering different tiles of the same image. Now, with Bryce 5, you'll be spending less time rendering and more time creating!

Quickly and easily create animation for use on the Web. Generate thumbnails to view quickly or preview frame-by-frame in a storyboard format. Make HTML image maps of your scenes with Web URLs embedded in specific objects and create virtual tours using QuickTime VR. Unlike any other, the enhanced and highly distinctive Bryce UI lets users take advantage of handy palettes to create and edit objects, design scenes and render final images quickly - a great way for new users to learn Bryce! The Sky Lab lets you control (from one control panel) the appearance and attributes of sky effects, including clouds, smog, sun, moon, comet, starfield and halo effects. Bryce 5 now contains a new Tree Lab, where you can create and edit trees to incorporate into your landscapes. The Tree Lab looks and functions very much like the Sky Lab featured in Bryce 4, so that you can familiarize yourself with it easily. In the Tree Lab, you can specify the type, branch density, leaf density, coloration, and other details. The unique and distinctive trees created in the new Tree Lab have a realistic 3D look, incorporating a high level of detail and even generating their own roots. Additional high-quality rendering options include Soft Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmissions (frosted glass), True Ambient Lighting and Depth of Field, as well as new optimizations designed to speed up architectural scenes. These options will help you achieve a whole new level of realism with your Bryce scenes.

A new Light Lab in Bryce 5 allows you to edit the effects of light in your creations. Using the Light Lab, you can control the direction, intensity, and tint of lights on objects and in landscapes ensuring a more accurate production of real-world environments. Metaballs is a powerful modeling technology that will simply and quickly allow you to create stunning organic shapes. By keeping the number of polygons low, it also saves you rendering time and increases productivity. With large monitors becoming more common, vast enhancements to the Terrain Editor include floating panels and fully scalable 2D Terrain Canvas and 3D previews, enabling you to take full advantage of your screen's real estate. The improved look and feel will not only enhance your user experience, it will simplify and improve the design process.