Bryce 5 free until September 6th

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I'm on a powerbook (powerpc) running 10.4.7. The free version absolutely does not work. I was able to register and start it, but can't save, open, save as, or render to disk because the dialog box hides behind the main window. However, just as I had given up hope, this story posts here and I'm alerted that I can get 5.5 for $19.95 (a $100 discount). I ran to download it, I figured it was worth the money to at least test it. I'm so happy I did. It works PERFECTLY - including DazStudio. It's definitely worth the money, and now that I see that it works correctly, I'll be ordering Bryce 6 the day it's released. It's been so long since I was able to use Bryce because the OS incompatability, that being able to use it again has opened up my creative desires again. I know where all my extra time will be going to from now on! Thanks for the heads up!

OK, buggy as hell on my 1Ghz ibook (1.25Gb Ram) so i thought i'd check out the pc version. ditto. bugs galore, invisible menus, non-responsive, had to kill the process manually, it just seems to fall apart on any platform.

its not the machines. its not the OS. its Bryce 5

you can knock this stuff up in blender or Art of Illusion on mac and pc for free anyway.

however that does require some leet skillz rather than drag and drop and slider editing.

I´m using 20" intel iMac (2GHz/2GB).

It´s wobbly but it´s working. It sent me off for registration and once back, crashed. I deleted the prefs and relaunched the program. It then allowed me to enter the registration and again sent me off for more presets. I then moved these to same folder where other Bryce presets are.

Now, here´s a funny part. You can do all the usual creating, texturing and rendering but when you try to save, you won´t see the dialog box. Or you will, if you control-tab to another app. It´s there but when you return to Bryce, it´s hidden again. However, you can write a name for the file blindfolded and hit Return and your image is saved.

This works fine on my late-model 12" PB.
1.5Ghz G4 CPU, 1.25GB RAM, OSX 10.4.7
I played with it for a few minutes.
It seems to be working okay. I was able to add/delete/manipulate objects and render them w/out problems.

It works on my "17 iMac core duo.

They say on the site:

"NOTE: Bryce 5.0 does not run under Mac OS X Tiger (Mac OS 10.4 and above)."

Sheesh, what's "free" in an app that won't run on the current OS?!

OK, yes I know it *said* 10.4.7 wouldn't work...

Definitely does NOT work for me - running OS X 10.4.7 on 1st gen 1.8 GHz iMac G5 17". I can get a serial # but - the registration process crashes the Bryce App. Repeatable.

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Bryce, essentially because of Kai Krause and his interface.

Works fine for me on my 1.33 GHz iBook running 10.4.7.