Bryce 7 Pro, Hexagon 2.5, & Daz Studio 4 Pro Are Free
Jay_NOLA
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For those that don't know. Digital Art Zone (DAZ) is offering Bryce 7 Pro, Hexagon 2.5, & DAZ Studio 4 Pro for free till February 29, 2012. Some of the plugins that are available separately too that are included with Studio 4 Pro are free too. So you can grab Studio 4 Pro and the separate plugins so you can have them for DAZ Studio 3 if you have that. I'd throw both in my cart even if I didn't have Studio 3.
Bryce and DAZ studio have been mentioned before on the forum.
Bryce is a great to compliment Fractal Terrains Pro 3 and can be used to make trees, etc for CC3 symbols.
DAZ works great for making character portraits, and other things.
Hexagon is a 3D modeling program and you can use it to make some 3D object to turn into new symbols for CC3.
Bryce and DAZ studio have been mentioned before on the forum.
Bryce is a great to compliment Fractal Terrains Pro 3 and can be used to make trees, etc for CC3 symbols.
DAZ works great for making character portraits, and other things.
Hexagon is a 3D modeling program and you can use it to make some 3D object to turn into new symbols for CC3.
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I'm definitely snagging this.
Some other quick notes.
Several of the plugins as I mentioned before are available for free too till the 29th so you can snag them too if you want them for the older Studio 3 & alternate serial key to use them. The exact ones are:
3D Photoshop Bridge
FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
Texture Atlas for DAZ Studio
The serial key that is in the separate 3D Photoshop Bridge will work in the free version of Studio 4 Pro till the new installers get fixed to let the free Studio 4 Pro key work in it.
The Bridge does work with very limited functionality in Elements.
If you want to have the Bridge in Studio 3 & 4 install one version into your alternate plugins folder in Photoshop. Ask on the Daz Forums if you need technical help with this.
Decimator for DAZ Studio is not part of the free version of Studio 4 Pro. If you want it you can buy it while it is on sale. It was part of the paid version of Studio 4, which has a different serial key.
If you are a complete beginner to using DAZ they have several new content starter Bundles. New user get a coupon on one starter bundle if I remember correctly. For a gamer & CC3 user of all new ones being offered I'd recommend.
Genesis Starter Bundle
Genesis Anime Starter Bundle
Genesis Fantasy Starter Bundle
Genesis Scifi Starter Bundle
But check out all the other Starter Bundles and not just the new Genesis specific ones as those might be of better use to use you.
Snag, the other free content items they have too.
Several older items content are on sale till the 29th too that are of use to gamer. The Orc Breeds Bundle which is one of the sale items is cheaper than buying the components of it separately which are also on sale too by the way.
MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL:
Do not ask technical questions about using the software on the Profantsy Forum, ask them on the DAZ Forum.
#1, FIRST - you create a shereical projection map of your world in FT3, FTPRO, whatever - and save / export your map as a .bmp, .png, or jpeg map. into a desktop folder, or your windows DOCUMENTS > PICTURES folder.
#2, NEXT - you open bryce - and after setting up your background / sky as a plain black backdrop or a starfield, and then deleting the groundplane - you create a sphere.
#3, you use your Fractal Terrains world map that you made to create an image based Bryce material (covered in the Bryce tuts / help files) within bryce,
#4, THEN - you apply the new mat to the sphere in BRYCE.
The results are like this:
~Dogtag
But I do enjoy working with the software. I'm working on learning it, so I can do both Profantasy and DAZ items for Crestar.