I made these out of basic shapes, is there any way I can bend one of the boards? and do I need to have poser installed to import poser people?

One way, and Im'e sure not the only way would be to draw it in the terrain editor, the more experienced brycers in here may offer up a better solution, but this is how I would do it. Once you are back to the main screen adjust the attributes for length and width.

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no there's no way to bend a parallelepiped in bryce but u can use some tricks, for example yus can make the board with a 2 cylinders (one positive and one negative) with a very low curvature and some negatives cubes.. it's a bit difficult to explain with words....see the image is better. Regarding poser people... no you don't need to have poser installed but you need someone who export poser people for you. hope the image is clear

I think distributing poser meshes is against the copyright laws. IOW you have to have Poser in order to use the figures though you don't "need" it to use the figures with Bryce. Kind of a catch 22.I'm sure I just confused you. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will speak up. :)

Page 328 of the Poser 4 user guide gives instructions on how to export Poser figures converted to "obj" files into Bryce. As a matter of fact, chapter 16 covers how to use Poser with other applications. If you intend to import proprietary figures such as Daz or Zygote then check out Objaction Mover in the "utilities" section here; http://www.sandylodge.demon.co.uk/ .But for this you will need to have Poser in order to re-configure the Poser figure in order to export a totally new figure without breaking copyright laws.