Bryce 7 is out now. Now it comes in three different versions. There is even a free PLE version. This version is however not for commercial usage.
Looking at the video, it seems the render quality has improved significant, approaching that of Vue.
Bryce and Vue should be the most popular landscape generating and rendering software around. However, there are also others such as Terragen and Carrara.
Check out the video on Bryce works below:
According to the Sculptris website, it seems that the software has been acquired by Pixologic. Sculptris is a free 3D digital sculpting software. Pixologic is the maker of the popular commercial sculpting program Zbrush. Will Sculptris still be free in the future? We can only wait and see. In the meantime the software as been relabelled as Alpha 5 and is still freely available.
On the other hand, Blender has improved its 3d sculpting capability. This is evident in the newly release Blender 2.53 beta. The new sculpting panel now sports new icons and revamped interface.
The more options and alternatives, the better it is.
