Bryce 5 Forum

Hi again!
I found some things that were wrong in the installation of Bryce 5. First, the link to Bryce 5 was wrong. It said:

"/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine" --workdir "C://Program Files//Corel//Bryce 5" --check --cx-app "C://WINDOWS//SYSTEM//start.exe" -- C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Bryce 5\Bryce 5.lnk

It should be:
"/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine" --workdir "C://Program Files//Corel//Bryce 5" --check --cx-app "C://Program Files//Corel//Bryce 5//Bryce5.exe"

Changing this will make Bryce 5 run.....however, there are some things that still won't work. So far, I've noticed that the menus (File, Edit, etc.) won't show, and the links won't work either (ALT-F, ALT-E, etc.). Also, I could not close Bryce 5, so I had to kill it.

I'll keep posting updates as I go on deep into the app.

I am interested in running Bryce Lightning on Linux.

Specifically a LiveCD to instantly convert any networked PC into a Bryce5 Lightning Client without impacting the machine's configuration.

Specifically I'm thinking about either the www.yoper.com "YLiveCD" that is in Beta, or on www.mediaknoppix.com which is a multimeda LiveCD Linux.

1st things first: Get Bryce Lightning Client running on Linux, and test it with Bryce 5 on windows running the master render node.

2nd: Integrate Wine/Crossover on a Knoppix / Live CD of some kind
(YliveCD - www.yoper.com)

Hello.

I have installed Bryce 5 (Corel version) under CX Pro ver 4.1 on MEPIS Linux, 2.6.7 kernel, Debian Unstable, KDE 3.3.0 window manager with NVIDIA graphics drivers on a PII-450 with 786Mb RAM.

Installation went without a hitch by just pointing CX to the correct CD-ROM drive on the machine. I accepted the default install parameters and the script worked just like it does under Windows 2000 Pro. I started Bryce 5 by clicking on the "Windows Applications --> Bryce 5 --> Bryce5" button under the KDE menu. The application started perfectly with no modifications to the link.

Once the program started, I tested the mouse functions as described in the previous posts. At first I could not get the top flyout menu to activate. On a hunch, I tried the "Alt-F" key combination used in Windows to drop the flyout "File" menu. The menu did not appear, but when I ran the mouse over the area where the menu should be, the flyout appeared under the mouse cursor. Running the mouse right and left along/near the top or the screen caused all the menus to appear one after the other. All selections appear to be available, including Ctrl-Q to quit the program. Hitting the Alt key again seems to hide the menu selections from the mouse.

The material editor was the sticking point for me. When I tried to load a JPG from the hard drive, no selection window/dialog appeared and I was forced to kill the program at that point.

From what I have seen by playing around and activating control functions, the native Bryce controls all seem to be accessible and work normally under CX as they do in Windows. The sticking point seems to be when you call for an Explorer window (Menu, Open dialog, Save dialog, etc.). The window/menu may or may not appear. Depending on what you are doing and where you are in Bryce, this may lead you to have to kill the program.

I am experimenting with other shift, ctrl, alt, and mouse click combinations to see if the Explorer windows can be "forced" into a visible mode or killed if they are invisible. (Kinda doubt it, but who knows, I may get lucky.)

BTW, Bryce 5 under CX Pro 4.1 renders pictures quite nicely. As long as you don't get behind one of these invisible Explorer windows/dialogs, the program works great.

Hope this helps folks out in their "quest" to get Bryce 5 running.

Best Regards

• Scott

You may have seen through other posts that I'm on
a rampage to get folks to write tests for us; if you can
do a regression test using www.cxtest.org, that would
be wicked cool (and a good way to make sure Bryce
never backslides :-/).

Cheers,

Jer

Unfortunately it has backslid,

Version 5.5 and 6.x of bryce have problem under 4.x to 6.x of CX.

Would you be willing to test installation?

Bryce 5.5 available free from download.com
Would be willing to buy you a copy of Bryce 6.x,

There is a sub-installer I can't get installed (Daz|Studio),
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9012&iTestingId=15137&sAllBugs)
Similarly cannot get .net framework installed in CX 6.2 Pro (it seems to be required for Bryce to run)

Frank