Sitting in my chair I was reminded of all the 3D renders I made in Bryce 3d, back in the day. And I thought 'Wonder if Bryce 3d is still available? Lets google it' .
The results were less than encouraging, some pages offered that Bryce 5 could be had for free, but the download led to a dodgy 'free trial' version. Another page opined that Bryce 7 was bundled in daz 3d for free. Narrowing my search a little I found that Bryce 7 pro is available from Daz 3d for the princly sum of $19.95 . Great I thought, might take me a while to get to grips with it as I used to have Bryce 4, but I'll have it.
Put it in the cart and checked out, using my paypal to fund the purchase and convert my currency. All paid for etc but no product download just a downloader for something called daz 3d studio. Nacht, so tried again, payment went through, same result , so I took the offered download, thinking 'it will be part of the distribution for daz3d then' alas no. Not a damn sign of it, 48 elements available for instal but bryce 3d is not one them.
In desperation I logged into my daz 3d dashboard looking for a way to complain bitterly only to find bryce listed at the top of the list of my products. Click! And up pops a list of manual download links for bryce,. Phew ok I found it, downloaded and installed I ran the program only to hit a register screen. Serial Number? What bloody serial number, I've not been given any serial number. In desperation I input the transaction id, na da! Again in dedperation I googled 'bryce 7 serial' and found a helpful page that intimated that daz3d hides its bryce serial number on the serials page from your dashboard menu.
Way to fucking go! I thought as up poped serials for Bryce 3d, Daz 3d studio, and something called Hexagons. Checking I found that the latter were items foisted on me by the initial installer. Grabbed the bryce serial and checked that it worked, success! Finally after gigabites of unwanted downloading I finally had what I had paid for!
My conclusion is that Daz3d is foistware and the makers think so highly of it that they don't care if you got what you paid for just as long as you downloaded and installed daz3d.
