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Daz3D releases Bryce7 with upgrade promo

David — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:23:11 +0000

After some teasing online, Bryce7 has been released, which is the latest version of the landscape and environment rendering tool by Daz3D.

This version comes in two flavors : standard and a Pro variant, with enhancements and new features for both versions.

The Bryce7 feature comparison table gives in fair detail what is the difference between the two. The pro version does seem to have quite a bit of new features that are meant for the power user, but could also be quite helpful for the hobby user:

Lighting enhancements
Atmospheric additions
displacement mapping

Upgrade promotions

To celebrate this release, Daz3D is offering upgrade promotions to all those that have invested in previous version of Bryce.

When you upgrade from Bryce6, you could be upgrading to Bryce7 for $6, which is quite a good deal in my opinion.

Head over to the website to find out the upgrade prices for Standard and Pro.

Bryce Master Series

If you want some step-by-step descriptions on how to build a specific scene, head over to the Bryce Master Series section in the Daz3D shop. The Bryce Master Series take some notable Bryce-generated scenes and explains how to re-create them in step-by-step.

These seem to be geared to Bryce 5 users, which is a shame. So don’t expect to have an in-depth explanation on how to use the new features of Bryce7 or even Bryce6.

I hope this will be rectified and updated in the near future, as it’s a very good way of showing your users what was the advantage of upgrading to these newer versions.

First beta of ImpressCMS 1.2 released

David — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:42:22 +0000

ImpressCMS 1.2 has released its first beta. This is quite old news, but given that 3mension is building upon the 1.2 codebase, it certainly was worth mentioning. The release of the beta marks the feature freeze of the 1.2 codebase, so the functionality that is available in the beta should give a good indication of what to expect in the upcoming release candidates and final release packages.

The team is still working hard to get the release stable and secure. I you would like to see what is coming in the next release of this CMS, please consider helping out in the testing cycle.

The sooner this release is deemed stable enough for release, the developers can start working on all the cool things that have been held up due to the beta testing. So if you want to help out, I’m sure everybody will be delighted to assist you in setting up a test environment, or explain which bugs need to be fixed.

Join the ImpressCMS Team

Download the ImpressCMS 1.2 beta release

The roadmap for ProjectPier 0.8.5 is published

David — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:23:53 +0000

The roadmap for the next evolution of ProjectPier, a web-based project management tool based in origin on the popular BaseCamp application, has finally been published at http://www.projectpier.org/roadmap/0.8.5, after a six-month hiatus in communications.

The new release 0.8.5 is to be named Santa Monica (after the Santa Monica Pier, pun definitely intended), and should reach us by the beginning of august. Development has been going on slowly, but even though not much was to be seen in terms of new releases, people looking at the SVN logs could see there were at least weekly updates.

ProjectPier is a tool I’ve been using a few weeks now, and I’m glad it’s here to stay. It provides a more top-down approach with taks lists, milestones and projects, instead of the more programming-oriented approach of bug trackers. A basic bug tracker can be created by using the built-in form functionality which then creates tasks in a todo list.