>>8117312>>8117410To be fair, I'm sure any of the modern 3D graphics apps can produce renders that look like a Bryce render if an artist took a few moments to recreate the appropriate look and feel in their work using their program of choice, and that's great and all, but for existing Bryce users in particular, most/all of these modern apps simply don't have the kind of comparatively easy to grasp user interface and readily accessible built-in libraries (for textures, skies, trees, objects, etc.) that Bryce has always had since version 1 and which was slowly expanded upon in successive versions over the years.
And by rewriting Bryce to be a 64-bit application it would not only allow even more expansion of such features, but it would finally allow the program to use more than approx. 3.5Gb of memory, which would unlock so much potential for creating larger and much more complex renders but in the familiar Bryce 'style'.
But will such a massive rewrite project ever happen?
It's been almost 15 years now since the last update to version 7.1 was released, making it far and away the longest gap between any kind of an update the program has ever experienced, so at this point the signs are honestly not looking so good for there ever being a version 8, much less a version 8 in 64-bit form.
But never say never, after all, stranger things have been known to randomly happen on the internet.
