To the growing consternation of its users, Bryce was apparently dead. Unfortunately, that was all Corel did with Bryce, leaving it on shelves and ignoring the requests for new features.
Soon followed a patch to version 5.01, which fixed some bugs and added a few undocumented features. In 2001 Corel released version 5 of Bryce, which included several new features, like Tree Lab and metaballs.
But in 2000 Bryce was purchased by Corel Corporation. In 1999 Bryce 4.0 was released with major improvements in the handling of atmospheres and skies, textures and also in the import/export of objects. The collection of images created along the camera's trajectory are combined to create a realistic animation simulating a journey through a dynamic world. The camera can be held in one place for a single image, or sent on a trajectory with images being rendered at many locations. A "camera object" unseen in the final image acted as the observer. The ability to animate a scene was added (in a stable form) with the cross-platform Bryce 3D (version 3.1) in 1997. Bryce 2.0 was also ported to the Windows platform, although the first stable version, 2.1, was not released until 1997. These included independent light sources, complex atmospheric effects, the addition of primitive forms with Boolean methods to combine them, and a revamped Texture Editor. The first commercial version, Bryce 1.0, appeared in 1994 for the Macintosh.īryce 2.0, shipped in 1996, included much beyond the original notion of creating a realistic mountain range. Wenger later met and worked with software artist Kai Krause to design a basic user interface. An initial set of fractal based programs were developed by Ken Musgrave (who later created MojoWorld) a student of Benoît Mandelbrot, and extended by Eric Wenger. The original Bryce software arose from work with fractal geometry to create realistic computer images of mountain ranges and coastlines. Operating_system = Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
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