Bryce 5.5, Linux. Making It Work
October 3, 2009 – 11:29 amI use Ubuntu and love it. I have no desire to go back to the Microsoft Windows world. But for one thing. I miss using Bryce. I’ve used it for years, and when DAZ took it over and offered a free download of Bryce 5.5, I was in heaven. Bryce is so friendly to artists, so intuitive. Since then I’ve basically ditched Windows because Linux has evolved so nicely on the desktop. I needed to find a way to get my beloved Bryce to work in Linux.
I found a way! I bought Crossover from CodeWeavers, the commercial version of wine. It is very user friendly. I then installed Bryce 5.5 and all went smoothly but for one thing - Bryce appeared not to be usable. Although Bryce’s top text menu is there ( just click at the top of Bryce’s window), the graphic menu palettes didn’t work. I experimented and now I can use Bryce with just a few workarounds.
In ‘Wine Configuration”> “Graphics” I use the ”Emulate a virtual desktop” and set it for 1024 x 768. This seems a bit more kind to my Ubuntu desktop. Mind you, this didn’t solve my major usability problem - the keyboard shortcuts did.
I use the “Ctrl” key plus the “1″,”2″,”3″ or “4″ keys to bring up the graphic menu pallets, one at a time. I’ve played around and can now create art in Bryce. You will have to experiment on your computer and see if it works. One thing I’ve found was a bug in the material editor, but I played with it and got it to work [Hint - hit “enter” if your menu disappears, go back again, select again and hit “enter’ again].
If you love Bryce and you use Linux, the keyword here is experiment.
Enjoy!
Bryce Keyboard Commands & Shortcuts
File
New Document—Ctrl/N
Open—Ctrl/O
Save—Ctrl/S
Quit—Ctrl/Q
Editing
Undo—Ctrl/Z
Redo—Ctrl/Shift/Z
Cut—Ctrl/X When objects are cut they are copied to the clipboard and can then be pasted.
Copy—Ctrl/C
Paste—Ctrl/V
Clear—Alt/> Backspace or Delete Keys can also be used.
Copy Material—Ctrl/Alt/C
Paste Material—Ctrl/Alt/V
Copy Matrix—Alt/C
Paste Matrix—Alt/V
Duplicate—Ctrl/D
Replicate—Alt/D When objects are replicated, they will be positioned, scaled or rotated, using the current objects transformation.
Example: if the object is rotated 90 degrees on the Y axes, then replicated, the new object will be rotated 180 degrees, on the Y axes,
the next one will be 270 degrees, and so on. The same applies to position and scaling
Select All—Ctrl/A
Invert Selection—Ctrl/Shift/A
Scroll Objects— Tab Key
Menus
Attributes—Ctrl/Alt/E
Document Set-Up—Ctrl/Alt/N
Render Animation—Alt/Shift/R
Multi-Replicate—Alt/Shift/D
Palettes
Create—Ctrl/1
Edit—Ctrl/2
Sky—Ctrl/3
Toggle Animation and Object Palettes—S
Labs
Tab Key will scroll to the next activated numeric option, in all of Bryce’s Labs
Materials—Ctrl/M
Picture Library—Ctrl/Alt/M
DTE—Alt/M
Sky Lab—Ctrl/K
Motion Lab—Ctrl/T
Edit Selected Object—Ctrl/E This will open the Smooth Menu, Torus Editor, Terrain Editor, Light Lab or Tree Lab depending on what type object is selected when it’s used.
Rendering
Render—Ctrl/R
Clear and Render—Ctrl/Alt/R
Print—Ctrl/P
Tools
Demo Marker— M
Time Line
These work on all Time Line in all Labs
Scrub Time Line— < or > each time the key is pressed will move to the next Ticker Marker
Next Key frame—Shift/< or >
Move to Animation Start— {
Move to Animation End— }
Selecting
Multi-Selection— Shift Hold shift key while selecting objects.
Menu Selection—Ctrl Hold Ctrl and left click to bring up list of objects in the area of the cursor.
Scroll Objects—Tab Key
Deselect—Click in Null Space
Object Properties
Show as Box—Ctrl/B
Show as Lattice—Ctrl/L
Neutral— O
Positive— P
Negative— N
Intersect— I
Group—Ctrl/G
Ungroup—Ctrl/U
Create Path—Alt/P
Camera Views
Drag Camera—Space bar Works in all views.
Position Camera—Alt/Space bar Director and Camera view only.
Rotate Camera—Ctrl/Arrow Keys Works in all views.
Zoom In & Out— Ctrl/Alt/Space bar All views.
Marque Zoom—Ctrl/Space bar Hold keys then draw a marque around zoom area.
Zoom In by Steps—Ctrl/=
Zoom Out by Steps— - minus sign
Reset Zoom— Ctrl/- Resets the Director and Camera to original zoom ( not position )
Fly Around—Ctrl/Y
Director View— ~
Camera View— 1
Top View— 2
Right View— 3
Front View— 4
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