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[MrTAToad]

I dont use 3D packages much - if I do, I generally use the objects that are provided...

[fuzzy70]

I always liked POV-ray :-)

Runs on an 8 MHz Atari with 1 MB memory. Well it used to at least, not sure about todays versions

Ok, so the simplest scenes takes hours but at least you don't need any sort of artistic vein. It's all programming :-)

I still use povray  , not as often though but found it very useful in the past for creating Isometric game graphics & understanding 3d in general. Come to think of it I believe the 1st ever 3D program I used was DKB Trace on the Amiga on which Pov-Ray is based.

I have just installed all 3 of the Daz freebies & had a quick play. There is definitely no fear of Hexagon replacing my usual Lightwave & Cinema4D combo but that's down to me using both of them for years, again back since Amiga days (you can thank Babylon 5 for getting me into Lightwave).

Daz Studio's UI will take a bit of getting used to, last time I used that was Poser 6 & the UI while looking similar is quite different in operation.

Last time I used Bryce was version 5 (when it was made/sold by Corel I think) & that seems not to have changed much from what I recall but Terragen proved better for me & have been using that since.

Lee

[MrTAToad]

I think the earlier versions of Bryce were a lot more stable

[fuzzy70]

I think the earlier versions of Bryce were a lot more stable

I have not given 7.1 a test yet other than starting it to enter my serial number 

Who knows, with my wonderful new clean Vista install that took days to update It may be stable on my system 

Having said that though I doubt it as took a lot of work just to get it started to enter the serial number thanks to VC runtime issues & nice old Vista "Side-by-Side" configuration issues.

Btw  I bought 2 of your books today, the cookbook & GLB programmers ref ones, my birthday is coming up in 3 days so early present for myself 

Lee

[MrTAToad]

Thanks for buying my books - hope you find them useful!

Dont forget to leave a review on Lulu too - thats something that no-one seems to do

[fuzzy70]

Dont forget to leave a review on Lulu too - thats something that no-one seems to do

Have left a review for the Reference Guide, I will do one for the Cookbook when I get around to looking at it.

One suggestion, I didn't write this in the review but I feel the Index should be near the start of the book rather than at the end seeing as its more of a "Table of Contents" type Index anyway. That's just my personal preference though & I have edited my copy in Acrobat so it is near the start.

Other than that I can see it getting a good bit of use 

Lee